...heap of history, when people understand the truth. Chapter Two In The Beginning: The early settlements There is no country In the whole world in which the...there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of it's conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened...

...heap of history, when people understand the truth. Chapter Two In The Beginning: The early settlements There is no country in the whole world in which the...there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of it's conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened...

...thing that caught my attention," Alexis de Tocqueville wrote when he toured the United States in 1831. "There is no country in the whole world in which the...influence over the souls of men than in America." Religion, the French visitor concluded, "is the foremost of the institutions of the country."2 De Tocqueville's...

...impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it... There is no country in the whole world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility ... than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened a free nation of the earth...

...something of the societal change since Alexis de Tocqueville observed 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."20 America could no longer be assumed to be a Christian country — not in its great urban...

...the United States the sovereign authority is religious . . . there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. . . . Religion in America . . . must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that...

...advances of the white man. —Bismarck (ND) Tribune, June 17,1874 There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America. —Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America THE PEOPLING OF NORTH AMERICA may have been an inherently...

...travelled through the United States in 1 83 1 - 1 832. He said: "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."38 He affirms the important role that religion played in American society and, in his view,...

...enabled the French observer de Tocqueville to proclaim 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 Most obvious, the disestablishment of religion leveled the playing field, giving all denominations...

...become a distinctive feature of American religion. He wrote: "There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence...conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth."15 Protestant Christians, while...