He is canvassed by a multitude of applicants, who seek to deceive him in a thousand different ways, but who instruct him by their deceit.

He takes a part in political undertakings which did not originate in his own conception, but which give him a taste for undertakings of the kind.

New ameliorations are daily pointed out in the property which he holds in common with others, and this gives him the desire of improving that property which is more peculiarly his own.

He is perhaps neither happier nor better than those who came before him, but he is better informed and more active.

I have no doubt that the democratic institutions of the United States, joined to the physical constitution of the country, are the cause (not the direct, as is so often asserted, but the indirect cause) of the prodigious commercial activity of the inhabitants.