...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...

...opinion, all will accept without hesitation the tribute of De Tocqueville uttered sixty years ago: "There is no country in the whole world in which the...greater influence over the souls of men than in America" (op. cit., p. 525). Certainly there is no country in the whole world where the true Church is more...

...clergy as these exigencies demand ? De Tocqueville, in treating of our institutions, remarks, that there is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men, than in America, and that, though it takes no part in the government of society, it must nevertheless be regarded as the...

...thing that strikes a traveler from abroad, concluding that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America." 3 A contemporary traveler in America can still observe the kind of religious symbols that impressed...

...the reign of Victoria. Alexis de Toqueville commented that "there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America"40 largely because its controlling agency in society was not enforced by government but by...

...early nineteenth century, Alexis de Toucqueville declared ". . .there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. . ."3 If de Toucqueville had been able to visit America at the midpoint of the twentieth century, he...

...(March 1961): 7. Tocqueville made the same point when he argued that ' 'there is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater...influence over the souls of men than in America," for, while "religion in America takes no direct part in the government of society, it must be regarded...

...recall that in the mid- 1830s, when Alexis de Tocqueville reported that "there is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America" (quoted in Winthrop S. Hudson, Religion in America: An Historical Account of the Development of American...

...Alexis de Tocqueville, visiting the United States in the 1830s, judged that "there is no country in the world in which the Christian religion retains a greater...influence over the souls of men than in America." 10 When religion permeates almost all aspects of common life, the common life transmits that religion...

...America, Alexis de Tocqueville provided an enduring description of religion in the antebellum era: "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." To Tocqueville, the cause was as simple as the effect: "The greatest part of British America was peopled...