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the same passions which made them attach so much importance to
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has chicas latinas desnudas destroyed all modes of speculation, becomes itself the great
and sole speculation, to which all the ardent and ambitious
desires which equality engenders are exclusively directed. Hence
it is that the selfsame democratic nations which are so reluctant
to engage chicas latinas desnudas in hostilities, sometimes perform prodigious
achievements when once
chicas latinas desnudas they have taken the field. As the war
attracts more
and more of public attention, and is seen to create
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the enterprising, proud, and martial minds, no longer of the
aristocracy solely, but of the whole country, are chicas latinas desnudas drawn in this
direction. As the number of competitors for military honors is
immense, and war drives every man to his proper level, great
generals are always sure to spring up. A long war produces chicas latinas desnudas upon
a democratic army the same chicas latinas desnudas effects that a revolution produces
upon a people; it breaks through regulations, and allows
extraordinary men to rise above the common level. Those officers
whose bodies and minds have grown
old in peace, are removed, or
superannuated, or they die. In their stead a host of young men
are pressing on, whose frames are already hardened, whose desires
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advancement at all hazards, and perpetual advancement; they are
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death provides chances for ambition. Death is constantly
thinning the ranks, making vacancies, closing and opening the
career of arms.
There is moreover a secret connection between the military
character and the character of democracies, which war brings to
light. The men of democracies are naturally passionately eager
to acquire what they covet, and to enjoy it on easy conditions.
They for the most part worship chance, and are much less afraid
of death than of difficulty. This is the spirit which they bring
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them to the field of
battle, induces them willingly