Horatio Spafford, who was born in 1828, was a wealthy Chicago lawyer with a promising career, a beautiful home, a wife, four daughters and a son.

    At the very height of his financial and professional success Horatio and his wife, Anna, suffered the loss of their young son. Shortly thereafter, on October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed most of his real estate(地产) Investment.

    In 1873, Spafford planned a boat trip to Europe in order to give his wife and daughters a much-needed vacation and time to recover from the loss of their young son. Spafford sent his wife and daughters ahead of him while he remained in Chicago to take care of some small business. Several days later he received notice that his family's ship had had a collision (碰撞). All four of his daughters had drowned, only his wife had survived.

    With a heavy heart, Spafford boarded a boat that would take him to his broken-hearted Anna in England. It was on this trip that he wrote those now famous words: When sorrows like sea billows roll, it is well, it is well with my soul.

    Philip Bliss (1838-1876), composer of many songs, including Hold the Fort, Let the Lower Lights be Buming, and Jesus Loves Even Me, was so impressed with Spafford's life and the words of his hymn (赞美) that be composed a beautiful piece of music to accompany the poem. The song was published by Bliss and Sankey in 1876.

    For more than a century, the tragic story of one man has given hope to countless people.

材料：在托克维尔看来，民主首先意味着身份的平等。他眼中的民主化的过程不仅仅限于政治领域，而是一场从政治、法律民情、社会构成，直至个人的思想、情感、文化等几乎一切领域内的广泛而深刻的变化。然而托克维尔本人又是一个贵族，对法国大革命尤其是人民直接参加暴力革命的反思，使他多次表白，他并不热爱民主，他无比崇尚的是自由。这种“贵族本能”使他敏锐地意识到现代民主所潜在的那种“盲目的本能”，即现代民主有可能在社会秩序和个体精神自由两个层面上造成扭曲。

——摘编自《托克维尔文集》

根据材料并结合世界史的相关史实，围绕“民主与自由”自行拟定一个具体的论题，并就所拟论题进行简要阐述。（要求：明确写出所选论题，阐述须有史实依据。）

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