And Others So Important I have just observed, that in democratic ages monuments of the arts tend to become more numerous and less important.

I now hasten to point out the exception to this rule.

In a democratic community individuals are very powerless; but the State which represents them all, and contains them all in its grasp, is very powerful.

Nowhere do citizens appear so insignificant as in a democratic nation; nowhere does the nation itself appear greater, or does the mind more easily take in a wide general survey of it.

In democratic communities the imagination is compressed when men consider themselves; it expands indefinitely when they think of the State.