Excerpt from Dissertations and Discussions, Political Philosophical, and Historical, Vol. 2 of 2: Reprinted Chiefly From the Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews M. De Tocqueville has endeavoured to ascertain and discriminate the various properties and tendencies of Democracy; the separate relations in. Which it standst towards the different interests of society, and the different moral and social requisites of human nature. In the investigation he has of necessity left much. Undone, and much which will be better done by those. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.