To increase the army may produce a lasting effect in an aristocratic community, because military ambition is there confined to one class of men, and the ambition of each individual stops, as it were, at a certain limit; so that it may be possible to satisfy all who feel its influence.
Armada gehitzeak efektu iraunkorra eragin dezake gizarte aristokratikoan, horrelako gizarteetan gutizia militarra gizon-mota bakar batera mugatua baitago, eta, gizon bakoitzarentzat, muga jakin batean gelditzen da; horrela, irits daiteke gutizia hori sentitzen duten guztiak asetzera gutxi gora-behera.