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sensibility from his use of the alphabet, he also wins his
personal freedom to dissociate himself from clan and family.
This freedom to shape an individual career manifested itself in
the ancient world in military life. Careers were open to talents in
Republican Rome, as much as in Napoleonic France, and for the
same reasons. The new literacy had created an homogeneous
and malleable milieu in which the mobility of armed groups and
of ambitious individuals, equally, was as novel as it was
practical.