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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: social condition, and they will hold in common the customs and
the opinions to which that social condition has given birth.
In the Middle Ages, the tie of religion was sufficiently
powerful to imbue all the different populations of Europe with
the same civilization. The British of the New World have a
thousand other reciprocal ties; and they live at a time when the
tendency to equality is general amongst mankind. The Middle Ages
were a period when everything was broken up; when each people,
each province, each city, and each family, had a strong tendency
to maintain its distinct individuality. At the present time an
opposite tendency seems to prevail, and the nations seem to be
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