He misconceives their local propriety and the historical reasons for their existence.

He takes no account of their solidity.

He is going to dash himself against Spain and against Russia, and he has no comprehension whatever of England.[2341]--This is so true that, wherever he places his hand he applies his own social system; he imposes on annexed territories and on vassal[2342] countries the same uniform arrangements, his own administrative hierarchy, his own territorial divisions and sub-divisions, his own conscription, his civil code, his constitutional and ecclesiastical system, his university, his system of equality and promotion, the entire French system, and, as far as possible, the language, literature, drama, and even the spirit of his France,--in brief, civilization as he conceives it, so that conquest becomes propaganda, and, as with his predecessors, the Cesars of Rome, he sometimes really fancies that the establishment of his universal monarchy is a great benefit to Europe.
***** [Footnote 2301: De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien regime et la Revolution." p.
64 and following pages, also p.354 and following pages.--"The Ancient Regime," p.

368.] [Footnote 2302: "The Revolution," I., book I., especially pp.

16, 17, 55, 61, 62-65.