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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: education, and many of them were known in Europe for their
talents and their acquirements. The other colonies had been
founded by adventurers without family; the emigrants of New
England brought with them the best elements of order and morality
-they landed in the desert accompanied by their wives and
children. But what most especially distinguished them was the
aim of their undertaking. They had not been obliged by necessity
to leave their country; the social position they abandoned was
one to be regretted, and their means of subsistence were certain.
Nor did they cross the Atlantic to improve their situation or to
increase their wealth; the call which summoned them from the
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