 States, the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America...  Democracy in America - Página 239por Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 455 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sanford Hoadley Cobb - 1902 - 570 páginas
...people be not a Christian nation, there is none upon the earth. Sixty years ago wrote De Tocqueville : " There is no country in the whole world in which the...greater influence over the souls of men than in America. By regulating domestic life it regulates the state. Religion is the foremost of the institutions of... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1905 - 550 páginas
...visited America in 1831, gave it as his calm judgment that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." And he sagely remarks that while it takes no direct part in the government of society, " it must be regarded... | |
 | Richard Taylor Stevenson - 1905 - 546 páginas
...visited America in 1831, gave it as his calm judgment that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." And he sagely remarks that while it takes no direct part in the government of society, "it must be regarded... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - 1907 - 448 páginas
...helped to form the law-makers. "There is no country in the whole world." said Tocqueville, in 1835, "in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." * Since the Civil War the American Church has become increasingly complex. In the first place, new... | |
 | James Barr - 1920 - 328 páginas
...dominion of religion in their country to the separation of Church and State. And he declares : — " There is no country in the whole world in which the...Religion retains a greater influence over the souls of mien than in America." * />. PROFESSOR GOLDWIN SMITH. In an Article in " The Nineteenth Century," Goldwin... | |
 | 1904 - 626 páginas
...best fruits? Many years ago that shrewd observer of our institutions, de Tocqueville, declared " that there is no country in the whole world, in which the...retains a greater influence over the souls of men than America." Let us thank God for the testimony, and, recognizing the purport of the words of our Lord,... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 910 páginas
...rapid than the progress of the population, and it is as true to-day as when De Tocqueville wrote that "there is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." Probably in no other country than America could such a Congress of Religions have been held as that... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1942 - 458 páginas
...spirit, commented upon by many European observers, was perhaps equally important. DeTocqueville noted: "There is no country in the whole world in which the...greater influence over the souls of men than in America. By regulating domestic life, it regulates the State." While the Dartmouth College case is perhaps best... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1942 - 452 páginas
...spirit, commented upon by many European observers, was perhaps equally important. De Tocqueville noted : "There is no country in the whole world in which the...greater influence over the souls of men than in America. By regulating domestic life, it regulates the State." While the Dartmouth College case is perhaps best... | |
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