Problems of Power

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Excerpt from Problems of Power: A Study of International Politics From Sadowa to Kirk-KilisseDuring the last ten years the Eternal would seem to have been preparing what one of his vicegerents, the Ger man Chancellor, recently called the policy of the clean slate. Not even Bossuet would venture to divine the sense of the still-hidden writing on the wall. Modern Europe is working out its destiny in blind obedience to the will of its two demiurgic creators, Napoleon and Bis marck. But neither the one nor the other saw ten years ahead. When Napoleon, at Tilsitt, in conversation with the Tsar Alexander and the King of Prussia, said to the latter, on his complaining of the humiliating conditions of peace imposed by the great Emperor, It is part of my system to weaken Prussia, I mean that she shall no longer be a power in the political balance of Europe, 1 he magnificently formulated a policy which might have become the principle of action of successive French states men, but he could not guess that within seven years Stein and Hardenberg, Fichte, Schiller and Schleiermacher would have in¿amed the soul of a regenerated Prussia.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.