They were only held together by the vigorous grasp of the hand which had combined them.

When the great statesman died, his Empire necessarily fell to pieces.

Society had need of farther disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
In the eighth and ninth centuries there was not even a people to be civilized.

The construction of Charles was, of necessity, temporary.