From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry … - Alexis de Tocqueville

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From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859) was a French political thinker and historian, most famous for his work Democracy in America.

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Alternative Names: Tocqueville • Alexis-Charles-Henri Clerel de Tocqueville • Alexis Clérel de Tocqueville • Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville

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