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The first duty imposed on those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible, new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions; gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men and circumstances require. A new political science is needed for a world itself quite new.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

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Carl J. RichardCarl J. Richard

Carl J. Richard is a professor of History at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He received his Ph.D. in History from Vanderbilt University in 1988. His books include The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment (Harvard, 1994), Twelve Greeks and Romans Who Changed the World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), The Battle for the American Mind: A Brief History of a Nation’ s Thought (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts: How the Ancients Inspired the Founding Fathers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008), The Golden Age of the Classics in America: Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States (Harvard, 2009), and Why We’ re All Romans: The Roman Contribution to the Western World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).

 

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