I’m traveling and working in Nepal with Jonathan Schell’s The Unconquerable World. Early on he says,
What were the causes of this democratic revolution? Almost anything you cared to mention, according to it’s most profound expositor, Tocqueville. “The various occurrences of national existence have everywhere turned to the advantage of democracy,” he wrote; “all men have aided it by their exertions: those who have intentionally labored in its cause and those who have served it unwittingly