But no man may foretell the period of dissolution....

The many restraining causes are out of sight of foreign observation.
The Lilliputian threads binding the man mountain are invisible; and it seems wondrous that each limb does not act for itself independently of its fellows.

A closer examination shows the nature of the network which keeps the members of this association so tightly bound.

Any attempt to untangle the ties, more firmly fastens them.

When any one State talks of separation, the others become spontaneously knotted together.