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electro-magnetic discovery.
Alexis de Tocqueville in his L’Ancien Régime (p. 156)
shows himself much more aware than Hayes of the causes and
effects of nationalism. Not only had accustomation to print
tended to create a uniform type of citizen but the political
education of France was carried on by men of letters:
The writers furnished not merely their ideas to the
people who made it, but also their temperament and
disposition. As a result of their long education, in the
absence of any other instructors, coupled with their
profound ignorance of practice, all Frenchmen from
reading their books finally contracted the instincts, the
turn of mind, the tastes and even the eccentricities
natural to those who write. To such an extent was this