They do not flame forth, as was the case in Poland as late as the year 1863.
What is the reason for this?
Mainly, it would seem, the enormous powers given to the modern organised State by the discoveries of mechanical science and the triumphs of the engineer.

Telegraphy now flashes to the capital the news of a threatening revolt in the hundredth part of the time formerly taken by couriers with their relays of horses.

Fully as great is the saving of time in the transport of large bodies of troops to the disaffected districts.

Thus, the all-important factors that make for success--force, skill, and time--are all on the side of the central Governments[64].
[Footnote 64: See _Turkey in Europe_, by "Odysseus" (p.

130), for the parallel instance of the enhanced power of the Sultan Abdul Hamid owing to the same causes.] The spread of constitutional rule has also helped to dispel discontent--or, at least, has altered its character.