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they acquire the habit of always considering themselves as standing alone, and they are apt to imagine that their whole destiny is in their own hands…Thus, not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him: it throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. 1835.
