Burden of the Past on the old Societies.--Difficulty of Reforms in
old Countries.--Facility of Innovation in new Countries.--Advantages
possessed by the Anglo-Americans for making Social Experiments.--The
American Labourer is _initiated_.--Absence of the _Profanum Vulgus_
in the United States.--The Labouring Classes in the United States
are superior to those of other Countries.--Defects of the American
Democracy.--Analogy to the Romans.--Superiority of the Educated
Classes in Europe.--The respective Merits, present and future, of
America and Europe. 422