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Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., III: a word more about America. (search)
s than I possess, would seem to me an impertinence. It is now a long while since I read M. de Tocqueville's famous work on Democracy in America. I have the highest respect for M. de Tocqueville; M. de Tocqueville; but my remembrance of his book is that it deals too much in abstractions for my taste, and that it is written, moreover, in a style which many French writers adopt, but which I find trying — a style g an air of rigorous scientific deduction without the reality. Very likely, however, I do M. de Tocqueville injustice. My debility in high speculation is well known, and I mean to attempt his book to write a worthy book about the United States, when I am not entirely satisfied with even M. de Tocqueville's. But before I went to America, and when I had no expectation of ever going there, I phave yet again visited America, have seen the great West, and have had a second reading of M. de Tocqueville's classical work on Democracy, my mind may be enlarged and my present impressions still fu