If you added up the many little hosts of any century of separation, they would perhaps be found equal or greater than the single host, or the fewer hosts, of previous centuries which were more united.
Bagehot theorizes that smaller, separated military forces could potentially match or exceed the strength of larger, unified forces from earlier centuries.
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