In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others. (Alexis de Tocqueville)

In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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