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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: looked upon as the natural enemy of democracy. Amongst the
various sects of Christians, Catholicism seems to me, on the
contrary, to be one of those which are most favorable to the
equality of conditions. In the Catholic Church, the religious
community is composed of only two elements, the priest and the
people. The priest alone rises above the rank of his flock, and
all below him are equal.
On doctrinal points the Catholic faith places all human
capacities upon the same level; it subjects the wise and
ignorant, the man of genius and the vulgar crowd, to the details
of the same creed; it imposes the same observances upon the rich
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