Related Authors: Alexis de Tocqueville | Democracy in America
Related Topics: 1840, aristocracy, democracy, poetry










Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; for things commonly grow larger and more obscure as they are more remote; and, for this two-fold reason, they are better suited to the delineation of the ideal.
Related Authors: Alexis de Tocqueville | Democracy in America
Related Topics: 1840, aristocracy, democracy, poetry
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