had merchandise ties all over the world and some of them were immensely profitable, and the, sarah roosevelt, the mother of president roosevelt, not long after tocqueville came to america, he retired after that at the age of 31 and built a castle on the hudson river, and the family was rich ever since off the profits from that kind of trade. that was america traveling around the world and in the decades after tocqueville, it starts around his time and you also have american churches sending missionaries around the world. hawaii was next by the united states in 1898 and the missionaries were there in the 1820s and so the religious impulse which tocqueville traces in america is one that america is also tracing in the world and so that tocqueville doesn't, i believe, mention this development. this is the kind of activity, the hyperactivity that this country is producing and this country with the multiple religions and it's very thin, federal government and the strong belief and it's increasing transportation and communications that the telegraph comes in in the 1840s and its ability to basicall