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Written by Dale Kuehne, a contemporary professor and author.

Tocqueville looked at America and said “What is going to keep us from pursuing our own individual self-interests? He believed that people, no question, were self-interested, but for democracy to work, we had to get outside of ourselves, we had to get to know our neighbors, and we had to work together with our neighbors to make a good community. And Tocqueville said that Christianity was the faith that got us out of ourselves.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. [Philippians 2:3-4]