Patricks Day. enough Jews to maintain a synagogue. enough Scdts to support a Presbyterian church. enough Germans to maintain four services in their language." 5 In 1840. Alexis de Tocqueville. a student of American democracy observed: "The sects that exist in the United States are innumerable. They all differ In respect to worship which is due to the Creator. but all agree in respect to the duties which are due from man to man." 6 The subsequent history of immigration to these shores enriched the diversity of population. As Louis Adamic reported in 1938: "Within its population of slightly less than 130 million. the United States has today over 30 million citizensthe overwhelming majority of them young citizens--who are the Americanborn children of immigrant parents of various nationalities: German. Italian. Polish.
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