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On Tocqueville’s Religious Terror Susan McWilliams Pomona College Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 31 – September 3 2006 Copyright by the American Political Science Association. The garden of the world which no one sees Never had walls is fugitive with lives; Its shapes escape our simpler symmetries; There is no resting where it rots and thrives. – Richard Wilbur1 In apprehending mass democracy and in composing Democracy in America
deeper truths of nature will ever elude and outlast them. But democracy’s power Tocqueville saw came from its character of aping nature – of appealing to the manifold desires of the human heart. Democracy might be then that conventional form of human organization that has atypical force because it promises to satisfy those desires of human life that are not matters of custom or convention but are matters of human nature. And because human nature is what it is