1,223 words Translated by Guillaume Durocher. Editor’s Note: Taken from Alexis de Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique (Paris: Gallimard, 1986), vol. 1, “Public Spirit in the United States,” 353-56. The title is editorial.  There exists a love for the fatherland which has its source principally in that unthought, disinterested, and undefinable feeling, which binds [...]