The bearing of it all is two-fold, of course.

This progressive, cumulative habituation under changing circumstances affects the case both of those democratic peoples whose fortunes are in the hazard, and also of those dynastic States by whom the projected enterprise in dominion is to be carried into effect.
* * * * * The case of the two formidable dynastic States whose names have been coupled together in what has already been said is perhaps the more immediately interesting in the present connection.

As matters stand, and in the measure in which they continue so to stand, the case of these is in no degree equivocal.

The two dynastic establishments seek dominion, and indeed they seek nothing else, except incidentally to and in furtherance of the main quest.

As has been remarked before, it lies in the nature of a dynastic State to seek dominion, that being the whole of its nature in so far as it runs true to form.