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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck Author: John Hubert Greusel Release Date: July 21, 2009 [EBook #29473] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLOOD AND IRON *** Produced by Markus Brenner, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) BLOOD and IRON Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck BY JOHN HUBERT GREUSEL THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS 114-116 E. 28th St. New York 1915 Copyright, 1915, John Hubert Greusel Dedicated to Stella My Wife CONTENTS BOOK THE FIRST: BISMARCK'S HUMAN ESSENCE Blood and Iron, by John Hubert Greusel 2 Chapter I The Man Himself 1. The Giant's Ponderous Hammer 2. Grossly Human Is Our Bismarck 3. Despite Political Bogs 4. Genius Combined with Foibles Chapter I 3 Chapter II Blood Will Tell 5. Iron-headed Ancestry 6. Animal Basis of Rise to Power 7. "The Wooden Donkey Dies Today!" Chapter II 4 Chapter III The Gothic Cradle 8. The Child of Destiny 9. Soft Carl, Spartan Louise Chapter III 5 Chapter IV Sunshine and Shadow 10. Amazing Powers of Hereditary Traits 11. The Wolf's Breed 12. Twenty-eight Duels! 13. Fizzle of First Official Service BOOK THE SECOND: THE GERMAN NATIONAL PROBLEM Chapter IV 6 Chapter V The Great Sorrow 14. The German Crazy Quilt 15. The Diamond Necklace Chapter V 7 Chapter VI Prussia's De Profundis 16. The Lash and the Kiss 17. The Prussian Downfall 18. Prussia Becomes Germany 19. Kingcraft Comes Upon Evil Days 20. The Star of Hope 21. The King Keeps Reading His Bible 22. The Deluge BOOK THE THIRD: BISMARCK SUPPORTS HIS KING Chapter VI 8 Chapter VII Fighting Fire with Fire 23. Voice in the Wilderness 24. The Young Giant 25. Speechless for One Whole Month 26. Bellowing His Defiance Chapter VII 9 Chapter VIII Bismarck Suffers a Great Shock 27. Bismarck Scorns French Political Millennium 28. Militarism as National Salvation 29. King Marches with Mob! Chapter VIII 10 [...]... in the heat and sweat, our Pomeranian smith with ponderous hammer beats and batters the stubborn German iron into a noble plan for a great Nation! ***** ¶ From a human point, we do not always see the ultimate glory For that is obscured by dark clouds of party strife, extending over years, the caprices of men and the interplay of ambitions both within and without the distracted German lands Russia,... there are a thousand enemies at home and abroad, in camp, court and peasant's cottage ¶ And at times, weary of it all, we throw down the book convinced that, in a welter of sordid ends, the cause is lost in shame But, somehow, some way, Germany does in truth ultimately emerge triumphant, in spite of her amazing errors and the endless plots of enemies She does indeed justify her manhood and thus the Bismarck... after superhuman endeavors the Roman Marius destroyed his German enemies is one of the heroic pages of all history It was a hand-to-hand contest, and torrents of human blood ran that day Menzel tells us, (Germany, p 85), that the place of battle enriched by a deluge of blood and ultimately fertilized by heaps of the slain, became in after years the site of vineyards whose wines were eagerly sought... nothing of the intervening rabble; but our tyrant is strong enough, in the end, CHAPTER I 27 to win foreign wars, and then the haters veer about, almost in a night, come up on bended knees and kiss the hand that smites that hand of Bismarck, at once the best-beloved and the most-hated hand of his time What more pray do you ask of human nature? ¶ Now here is a strange reality: If you look at the general... idea But mighty Frederick is in the royal tomb these many years; and a new Frederick in spirit is rapidly learning the business of king-maker and empire-builder ***** ¶ Behind the name Bismarck is a story extraordinary, compounded of the intrigues, blood and passions of Austria, Russia, Italy, France, Belgium, Bavaria, Spain, and England Volumes would not suffice to give you the bewildering details;... ancestors in such good stead, enabling them to frighten the peasants into providing the corn ¶ Yes, blood will tell and the Bismarck blood is rare juice! CHAPTER II 30 CHAPTER II Blood Will Tell 5 Battle-born, Bismarck's genius springs from the very fire and sword of human nature resembling definitely his iron- headed barbarian ancestry, whose freedom remained unconquered through the centuries ¶ We cannot... 9 Soft-hearted Karl and Spartan Mother Louise; her rigid character, its good and its bad side; her extreme punctilio and her pistol-shooting, to steady her sight ¶ Otto von Bismarck inherited his tall form from his father, Karl William This unusual type of cavalry captain subscribed for French journals and ate off silver plate Karl's regiment was known as the "White and Blue," and one of his duties... FOURTH: BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER 11 Chapter X Chapter X Socrates in Politics 35 The Frankfort School of Intrigue 36 Preparing for German Unity 37 Tyrants Are Necessary 38 Bismarck, in Naked Realism 12 Chapter XI Chapter XI The Mailed Fist 39 Democracy Stems from Aristocracy 40 Parallel Elements of Power 13 Chapter XII 14 Chapter XII By Blood and Iron! 41 The Man of the Hour 42 Rough and Tumble... baggage train fought with animal ferocity The battle went against the Germans and the slaughter was frightful When all was lost, the Germans killed their women and children, rather than see them fall into the hands of the Romans German courage inspired terror and created foreboding throughout the Roman world It is a heroic story and sustains the German tradition that Germans born free under their ancient... footnotes to each paragraph, and with notes to the footnotes ¶ Yet this Bismarck is not inaccessible if we get at his inner side, grasp the man's essence Strong arm and tireless brain Time asked; a man who could neither be bent, broken nor brow-beaten; a man who would for 40 years follow a plan by no means clear; often had to go out in the dark and find his way, all old landmarks lost, and no pole-star in sight . XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII Blood and Iron, by John Hubert Greusel The Project Gutenberg EBook of Blood and Iron, by John Hubert Greusel This eBook. ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLOOD AND IRON *** Produced by Markus Brenner, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net