Dear tiburonjimwood,
The quotation originally appeared in Alexis de Tocqueville's travel
description "Quinze jours au désert - récit d?un voyage dans l?Ouest
américain" (Fifteen Days in the Wilderness - Account of a Voyage in
the American West).
Chapter 6, "Description d?un établissement de pionniers", contains the
original French version of the quote:
"Cet homme inconnu est le représentant d?une race à laquelle
appartient l?avenir du Nouveau Monde : race inquiète, raisonnante,
aventureuse, qui fait froidement ce que l?ardeur des passions explique
seule (...)"
"Quinze jours au désert" is the description of two weeks of
Tocqueville's travels in America in July 1831. His entire journal of
his nine-month voyage through the USA was published posthumously as
"Voyage en Amérique" in 1865. "Quinze jours au désert" was chapter 13
of that book.
The English title of the travel journal is "Journey to America", and
the chapter from which the quotation derives is translated as "A
Fortnight in the Wilds".
You can find the full original French text of "Quinze jours au désert" here:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/aetius/amerika/tocqueville.htm
Source:
Aétius: Alexis de Tocqueville - Quinze jours au désert
In addition, here is the English version, "A Fortnight in the Wilds":
http://titan.iwu.edu/~matthews/journey1.html
Source:
Illinois Wesleyan University: A Fortnight in the Wilds, on Prof. James
D. Matthews' Homepage
Sources:
Thomas Kern Photography: Democracy in America - Journey Through the
Land of the Free
http://www.thomaskernphotography.com/america/
The New Criterion: Tocqueville today
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/nov00/tocque.htm
C-Span: The Geography of Alexis de Tocqueville's Journey
http://www.c-span.org/classroom/tocqueville/module5_journey.asp
The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour: Exploring Democracy in America
http://www.tocqueville.org/
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Hope this answers your question!
Regards,
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