This liking for general ideas is displayed in democratic languages by the continual use of generic terms or abstract expressions, and by the manner in which they are employed.
This is the great merit and the great imperfection of these languages.
Democratic nations are passionately addicted to generic terms or abstract expressions, because these modes of speech enlarge thought, and assist the operations of the mind by enabling it to include several objects in a small compass.

A French democratic writer will be apt to say capacites in the abstract for men of capacity, and without particularizing the objects to which their capacity is applied: he will talk about actualities to designate in one word the things passing before his eyes at the instant; and he will comprehend under the term eventualities whatever may happen in the universe, dating from the moment at which he speaks.

Democratic writers are perpetually coining words of this kind, in which they sublimate into further abstraction the abstract terms of the language.

Nay, more, to render their mode of speech more succinct, they personify the subject of these abstract terms, and make it act like a real entity.

Thus they would say in French, "La force des choses veut que les capacites gouvernent." I cannot better illustrate what I mean than by my own example.