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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