“There is almost no human action, however particular one supposes it, that does not arise from a very general idea that men have conceived of God, of his relations with human race, of the nature of their souls, and of their duties toward those like them. One cannot keep these ideas from being the common source from which all the rest flow. – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.”

“There is almost no human action, however particular one supposes it, that does not arise from a very general idea that men have conceived of God, of his relations with human race, of the nature of their souls, and of their duties toward those like them. One cannot keep these ideas from being the common source from which all the rest flow. – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.”

— Ross Douthat