If it does not lead the will directly to virtue, it establishes habits which unconsciously turn it that way. How this connects with capitalism is something I will offer a few comments on in a post which will follow this one. The picture he draws in the last chapter is remarkably like what we have today. Unable to wipe out these two contradictory instincts, they try to satisfy them both together. Their imagination conceives a government which is unitary, protective, and all-powerful, but elected by the people.
Centralization is combined with sovereignty of the people.
That gives them a chance to relax. They console themselves for being under schoolmasters by thinking they have chosen them themselves. Each individual lets them put the collar on, for he sees that it is not a person, or a class of persons, but society itself which holds the end of the chain. Under this system the citizens quit their state of dependence just long enough to choose their masters and fall back into it.