Authority is yet to organise itself in the United States.--Authority
is founded upon Centralisation and Distinction of Ranks.--Present
Character of Authority in America.--Representative Government,
become the Government of the Majority, tends to Tyranny.--Difference
between the South and the North.--Aristocracy of Birth; Aristocracy
of Talents.--Both co-existed in Ancient Society.--Forms of
Aristocracy among the Romans and the Greeks.--Vigourous Organisation
of the Feudal Aristocracy.--Violent Reaction against the
Nobility.--Christianity has contributed to this Reaction.--The
Feudal System fixed the Barbarians.--Primogeniture in the English
Commons.--Advantages of a Hereditary Aristocracy.--Growth of the
Sentiment of Family.--Necessity of balancing the Innovating and
the Conservative Elements of Society.--How Stability has been
secured without the Hereditary Principle.--Difficulty in the
Way of the immediate Abolition of the Hereditary Aristocracy in
Europe.--The absolute Hereditary Principle has been irretrievably
weakened.--Hereditary Transmission of Office.--Where can the Elements
of an Aristocracy in France be found?--How can an Aristocracy be
established in the United States?--Germs of Aristocracy in the
South.--Dangers of American Society. 405