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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: frequently be easier to interest them in the punctilios of court
etiquette than in the repairs of their common dwelling. But
whenever a central administration affects to supersede the
persons most interested, I am inclined to suppose that it is
either misled or desirous to mislead. However enlightened and
however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself
embrace all the details of the existence of a great nation. Such
vigilance exceeds the powers of man. And when it attempts to
create and set in motion so many complicated springs, it must
submit to a very imperfect result, or consume itself in bootless
efforts.
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