Related Uses of The Term "Empire of (the) Mind"
The notion of an "empire of mind" (usually seen expressed as an "empire of the mind") has been found in literature since Alexis De Tocqueville first used it in the following oft quoted passage:
I consider the people of the United States as that portion of the English people which is commissioned to explore the wilds of the New World; whilst the rest of the nation, enjoying more leisure and less harassed by the drudgery of life, may devote its energies to thought, and enlarge in all directions the empire of the mind. The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.
The phrase an "empire of the mind" usually denotes imperialism or a specific empire and has been applied to the United States, Britain, India, Iran and ancient Greece. Strangelove's use of the phrase was inspired by Sir Winston Churchill's statement, "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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