The interests of all are so interlaced, their opinions and their wants so much alike, that none can remain quiet when the others stir.
Wars therefore become more rare, but when they break out, they spread over a larger field.
This similitude of nations has consequences of great importance in relation to war. Thus one of the consequences of the democratic revolution that is going on in Europe is to make numerical strength preponderate on all fields of battle and to constrain all small nations to incorporate themselves with large states, or at least to adopt the policy of the latter. As numbers are the determining cause of victory, each people ought of course to strive by all the means in its power to bring the greatest possible number of men into the field. The characteristics of individuals are very strongly marked. The characteristics of individuals are nearly obliterated.