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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: were moulded and altered at their pleasure; the barriers of the
society in which they were born were broken down before them; the
old principles which had governed the world for ages were no
more; a path without a turn and a field without an horizon were
opened to the exploring and ardent curiosity of man: but at the
limits of the political world he checks his researches, he
discreetly lays aside the use of his most formidable faculties,
he no longer consents to doubt or to innovate, but carefully
abstaining from raising the curtain of the sanctuary, he yields
with submissive respect to truths which he will not discuss.
Thus, in the moral world everything is classed, adapted, decided,
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