and dependent enough to submit to thorough training, and yet full enough of the pride of caste and of descent to make firm and dignified leaders. The Prussian nobility, instead of weakening the throne by its jealousy, has lent it the most efficient aid in the one great institution to the perfecting of which the Kings of Prussia have directed their best energies. same popular idea found statesmen, and soldiers, and organization, ready prepared, through long years of preliminary training, for the great national work, and hence all the elements of strength were combined - a strong hereditary monarchy, a military aristocracy more amenable than most aristocracies to scientific teaching, and a people surging with enthusiasm for a new era of national unity and national power. But the Prussian throne and the aristocracy united would really have been It is rarely, indeed, that such elements quite powerless for the great work of the can be united in any national history, and last three or four years of political achieve- probably it will not be for long that they ment, if they had not been acting under can work together even in the history of the advice of a Minister who fully under- Prussia. Let the German unity once be stood and enthusiastically shared the lead- fairly consummated, and the German Paring popular idea of modern Germany, and liament meet, and the common end which was anxious, above all things, to embody now unites King, nobles, and people, will, it as the great end of his statesmanship. too, probably disappear. No doubt for the Count Bismarck has never been a hearty mere purpose of resisting foreign aggresbeliever in the parliamentary system, but sion, Prussia would still be united as he has always aimed at realizing by other closely as ever, for all nations unite than parliamentary means, and with as against the foreign conqueror; but though little offence to parliamentary aspirations all union is strength, all union is not as he could manage, the great dream of the strength of the unique kind we now see. popular party, a Germany not only united English union is strength, and American but powerful-nay, even predominant union is strength, but it is only the union in the counsels of Europe. And it was the of the people in either country which is force of this universal popular feeling the source of that strength. Our monarch which gave such strength to Count Bis- would not have the power to lead us as marck from the moment when it was first the Prussian monarch now has the power perceived that he was working powerfully to lead Prussia. The aristocracy would for the great popular end, though by not be the cement of our armies, as the means of which a great section of the pop- Prussian aristocracy is the cement of the ular party had disapproved. It has been Prussian armies. And even in Prussia, the singular good fortune of Prussia, since when once the unity is gained, and the the war with Austria, that her King, her conflict between the throne and popular nobility, her army, and her statesmen have privilege has been fought and won, as it all been working towards an end ardently must be won, by the people, these sources desired by the whole German democracy. of special strength will be more or less When America worked out her national dried up. National leaders are often very unity, endangered by the principle of difficult to find in a great democracy. In slavery, she had nothing but the predomi- Prussia the national leaders are furnished nance of the national feeling on which to by the present organization of society, rely, and consequently for years she had and yet, as so rarely happens, they are to grope her way amidst great difficulties national leaders who happen to care quite towards the fitting military organization as much as the people for the great popufor her purpose. But in Germany the lar cause of the hour. END OF VOL. CVII. THE FAVORITE GERMAN AUTHOR LITTEL L'S IN LIVING AGE. 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