`` sinceaquitaine was once considered a legitimatepossession of england , it might in time haveenveloped all of her foreign colonies , including theoriginal thirteen across the atlantic later theunited states of america ... . of course , miscalculations or not , it could never have happenedbecause of a fundamental law of westerncivilisation , valid since the-deposition of romulusaugustulus and the collapse of the roman empire.you can not crush , then unite by force and ruledisparate peoples and their cultures not for anylength of time . ''