snapped or been lightened.

In the first place, public power has ceased to consist of a militia
protecting a cult. In the beginning, through the institution of
Christianity, civil society and religious society have become two
distinct empires, Christ himself having separated the two jurisdictions;

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things
that are God's."

Additionally, through the rise of Protestantism, the great Church is
split into numerous sects which, unable to destroy each other, have been
so compelled to live together and the State, even when preferring one
of them, has found it necessary to tolerate the others. Finally,
through the development of Protestantism, philosophy and the sciences,
speculative beliefs have multiplied. There are almost as many faiths
now-a-days as there are thinking men, and, as thinking men are becoming
daily more numerous, opinions are daily becoming more numerous. So
should the State try to impose any one of these on society, this would
excite opposition from an infinity of others; hence the wisdom
in governing is found, first, in remaining neutral, and, next, in
acknowledging that it is not qualified to interfere.

In the second place, war has become less frequent and less destructive
because men have not so many motives for waging it, nor the same motives
to push it to the same extremes. Formerly, war was the main source of
wealth; through victories Man acquired slaves, subjects and tributaries;
he turned these to the best account; he leisurely enjoyed their forced
labor. Nothing of this kind is seen now-a-days; people no longer think
of providing themselves human cattle; they have discovered that, of all
animals, these are the most troublesome, the least productive, and the
most dangerous. Comforts and security are obtained much more readily
through free labor and machinery; the great object no is not to conquer,
but to produce and interchange. Every day, man, pressing forward more
eagerly in civil careers, is less disposed to put up with any obstacle
that interferes with his aims; if he still consents to be a soldier it
is not to become an invader, but to provide against invasion. Meanwhile,
war has become more scientific and, through the complications of its
machinery, more costly; the State can no longer call out and enlist
for life every able-bodied man without ruining itself, nor put too
many obstacles in the way of the free industry which,