Agricultural Society Quotes
In the Middle East conflict over Palestine, both Jews and Arabs claim that they were among the early citizens of an organized society. But some Arabs see the Jews as outsiders who were given Palestinian land to compensate for the Holocaust. This quotation is cited to illustrate that both Jews and Arabs were established in Palestine from earliest times and were recognized as such by historians writing around the time of Christ.
The Founding Fathers and the educated were well aware of European History and feudalism, however most early Americans were aware of their “rights” as Englishmen although they had little detailed knowledge of history. This Tocqueville thought positive as for the majority of early Americans, the American way was the right way and was an improvement in where they had immigrated from. As immigrants came from Ireland, Russia, Scotland and other European nations where they were peasants, they were met by and were drawn to a society which knew little of peasants.
He often spoke in the North to try and explain the virtues of the “New South” with an idea of diminishing the stigma the South has borne every since the founding of the nation. In this particular speech, His audience included J. P. Morgan and H. M. Flagler at New York’s Delmonico's Restaurant at a meeting of the New England Society of New York. He gave a picture of a middle class society, but the reality was there was a very small middle class in the South at that time. Most farmers were tenant farmers and didn’t even own their own land. And the 50 homes for every palace were far below the standard with which the North had become familiar.
