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folly to believe oneself able to judge England in six months.
A year always seemed to me too short a time in which to
appreciate the United States properly, and it is much easier
to acquire clear and precise notions about the American
Union than about Great Britain. In America all laws derive in
a sense from the same line of thought. The whole of society,
so to speak, is founded upon a single fact; everything
springs from a simple principle. One could compare America
to a forest pierced by a multitude of straight roads all
converging on the same point. One has only to find the
centre and everything is revealed at a glance. But in England
the paths run criss-cross, and it is only by travelling down
each one of them that one can build up a picture of the
whole.
De Tocqueville, in earlier work on the French Revolution, had