factors. Similarly, visual quantification as a collective mania 
yields the French Revolutionary military mania. Here the uniform 
and the homogeneous are most  visibly at one. The modern 
soldier is especially the instance of the movable type, the 
replaceable part, the classic Gutenberg phenomenon. De 
Tocqueville has much to say of this in his European Revolution  
(pp.  140­1):

          What the republican partisans took for love of the 
     Republic was chiefly a love of the Revolution. In fact, the 
     army was the only class in France in which every member, 
     without exception, had gained by the Revolution and had 
     a personal interest in supporting it. To it every officer 
     owed his rank, and every soldier his chance of becoming 
     an officer. The army was, in truth, the standing 
     Revolution in arms. If it still fiercely exclaimed: “Long live