All this seems strange to us but, undoubtedly, the system is far better for the population.

There is no bloodshed, no burning of villages, no plundering, no confiscation of estates.

It is a change in the personnel of the government, but no change in the general course of affairs.
"It is strange that your soldiers fight so well when, as you tell me, they never carry arms until they enter the army; while ours are trained from childhood in the use of weapons.

And your enemies, the French, is it the same with them ?" "It is the same, Nana, so far as their civil life is concerned; for none carry weapons or are trained in their use.

There is one wide point of difference.