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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 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: occasions; and they are the more attached to it by their
continual exertions to increase the amount. The notion of
surrendering the smallest part of it is insupportable to them,
and they consider its total loss as the worst of misfortunes.
Now these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute
the class which is constantly increased by the equality of
conditions. Hence, in democratic communities, the majority of
the people do not clearly see what they have to gain by a
revolution, but they continually and in a thousand ways feel that
they might lose by one.
I have shown in another part of this work that the equality
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