 Because he was a Roman Catholic, an Aristocrat, and a Frenchman, he is able to provide a very interesting unique perspective on America, which was predominantly Protestant and Anglo-Saxon, and certainly not of nobility. So when he comes to America, and he comes ostensibly to study the American prison system, which was regarded as quite liberal in its day, he is coming to study the American character, because he believes that democracy is the future of America, as well as the world. And so as he's considering these possibilities and analyzing these very important things, he is also at the same time concerned with a number of issues about the nature of the American. In almost everything he said and wrote, there's some grain of wisdom, something that really does get to the heart of the American character.