美国社会，第1卷（共2卷）
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- APA哈丽特·马蒂诺. (n.d.). Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) [美国社会，第1卷（共2卷）]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/harriet-martineau/society-in-america-volume-1-of-2
- MLA哈丽特·马蒂诺. Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) [美国社会，第1卷（共2卷）]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/harriet-martineau/society-in-america-volume-1-of-2.
- Chicago哈丽特·马蒂诺. Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) [美国社会，第1卷（共2卷）]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/zh/works/harriet-martineau/society-in-america-volume-1-of-2.
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内容简介
哈丽雅特·马蒂诺一八三七年美国研究的第一卷：把这个国家对自己的说法，与她在那里所见相对照。
背景与流传
马蒂诺于一八三四至三六年间游历美国，一八三七年出版此书。可贵的不是游记，而是方法：她出发时便公开申明了尺度——把这个国家在其建国文献中对自己的说法，与她在那里所见相对照；并且带着一套如何观察的规则，那套规则她另行出版。正因如此，她被视为社会学的奠基者之一——而更多的时候，她并没有被列在其中。她的结论是严苛的：这个自称立国于平等之上的共和国，蓄着奴隶，也把女性置于无权之地；而这两件事在性质上是同一件。她写下这些的时候，此举在南方各州足以使她失去人身安全——而事实上确实如此。她自年轻时便失聪，成年后一生以写作谋生。
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elastic form, must be given to every institution. "The majority are in the right." Such is the theory. Few individuals of this majority can act for longer than two-score years and ten; few for so long. No one can suppose that his successor will think or feel as he does, however strict may be the regard of each to the fundamental principles which are to regulate his citizenship. It is absolutely necessary, to secure permanence to the recognition of those principles, that there should be liberty to change the form which contains them. Else, in the endless variety of human views and interests, there is danger lest men, being prohibited from producing a correspondence between the principles they recognise, and the forms they desire, should, because interdicted from outward change, gradually alter the spirit of their government. In such a case, men would be some time in discovering that the fair body of their constitution has become possessed, while they had supposed her inspired: and, to pass over the mischiefs which might happen during the period of her possession, the work of exorcism would be difficult and perilous. FOOTNOTE: [1] Declaration of Independence. CHAPTER I. PARTIES. "For these are the men that, when they have played their parts, and had their exits, must step out, and give the moral of their scenes, and deliver unto posterity an inventory of their virtues and vices." _Sir Thomas Browne._ The first gentleman who greeted me on my arrival in the United States, a few minutes after I had landed, informed me without delay, that I had arrived at an unhappy crisis; that the institutions of the country would be in ruins before my return to England; that the levelling spirit was desolating society; and that the United States were on the verge of a military despotism.…