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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: step towards the universal level. The taste for luxury, the love
of war, the sway of fashion, and the most superficial as well as
the deepest passions of the human heart, co-operated to enrich
the poor and to impoverish the rich.
From the time when the exercise of the intellect became the
source of strength and of wealth, it is impossible not to
consider every addition to science, every fresh truth, and every
new idea as a germ of power placed within the reach of the
people. Poetry, eloquence, and memory, the grace of wit, the
glow of imagination, the depth of thought, and all the gifts
which are bestowed by Providence with an equal hand, turned to
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