Yet the idea expressed in "The Emperor of the French" is not dead, but rather risen from the dead.

It is the idea that while a government may pretend to be a popular government, only a person can be really popular.

Indeed, the idea is still the crown of American democracy, as it was for a time the crown of French democracy.

The very powerful official who makes the choice of that great people for peace or war, might very well be called, not the President of the United States, but the President of the Americans.

In Italy we have seen the King and the mob prevail over the conservatism of the Parliament, and in Russia the new popular policy sacramentally symbolised by the Czar riding at the head of the new armies.