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The construction of political liberty was believed to be
complete if only the legislative power were separated
from the executive and the judicial, and every citizen
were, on equal terms, to help in electing the deputies
of the National Convention. Those demands were
fulfilled, most abundantly fulfilled, and what was the
end of it all? The most disgusting despotism Europe
ever saw. The idolatry which our Radicals displayed
all too long for the horrors of the Convention is at last
beginning to die out in the presence of the trifling reflec-
tion: If an all-mighty State-power forbids me to open
my mouth, compels me to belie my faith, and guillotines
me as soon as I defy such insolence, it is a matter of
perfect indifference whether that tyranny is exercised
by a hereditary prince or by a Convention; both the one
and the other is slavery. But the fallacy in Rousseau's
maxim that, where all are equal, each one obeys himself,
seems really too obvious. It is much truer that he
obeys the majority, and what is to prevent that majority
from behaving quite as tyrannously as an unscrupulous
monarch?
If we consider the feverish convulsions which have
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shaken for seventy years the nation on the other side
of the Rhine (which is, despite all, a great nation), we
are ashamed to find that the French, in spite of all their
enthusiasm for liberty, have only known equality, and
never freedom. But equality is a shallow idea, which
may as well signify an equal slavery of all as an equal
freedom of all. And it certainly means the former
when it is aspired to by a people as the sole, highest
political good. The highest conceivable degree of
equality--communism--is the highest conceivable degree
of serfdom, because it assumes the suppression of all
natural inclinations. Assuredly, it is not an accident
that the passionate impulse for equality is especially
rife in that people, whose Celtic blood is ever and ever
again finding pleasure in flocking, in blind subjection,
round a great Cassarean figure, whether his name be
Vercingetorix, Louis XIV, or Napoleon. We Germans
insist too proudly on the limitless right of the individual
for us to be able to discover freedom in universal suffrage;
we reflect that even in several Ecclesiastical Orders
the heads are chosen by universal suffrage; but who
in the wide world has ever sought for freedom in a con-
vent? Truly it is not the spirit of liberty which speaks
in Lamartine's declaration, in the year 1848: "Every
Frenchman is an elector, therefore a self-ruler; no
Frenchman can say to another, 'You are more a ruler
than I. '" What instinct of mankind is gratified by
such words? None other than the meanest of all--
envy I Even Rousseau's enthusiasm for the civism of
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the ancients will not stand serious examination. The
civic glory of Athens rested on the broad substratum
of slavery, of contempt for all economic activities; whilst
we moderns base our fame on respect for all men, on
our acknowledgment of the nobility of labour. The
most bigoted aristocrat in the modern world seems like
a democrat by comparison with that Aristotle who
coolly lays it down with horrible hardness of heart:
"It is not possible for a man who lives the life of a
manual labourer to practise works of virtue. "
Deeper natures were impelled, long ago, by such con-
siderations to examine more carefully on what prin-
ciples the much-envied freedom of the Britons rests.
They found that in that country no all-powerful govern-
ment determines the destinies of the most remote
communities, but every county, however small, is
administered by itself. This acknowledgment of the
blessings of self-government was an extraordinary
advance; for the enervating influence on the citizens
of a State that looks after everything can hardly be
depicted in sufficiently dark colours; it is, therefore, so
uncanny, because a morbid state of the people is only
revealed in its full extent in a later generation. So long
as the eye of the great Frederick watched over his Prus-
sians, a simple glance at the hero raised even small
souls above their standard; his vigilance was a spur to
the sluggards. But when he passed away he left a
generation without a will, accustomed--as Napoleon III
boasts of bis Frenchmen--to expect from the State all
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incitement to action, disposed to that vanity which
is the opposite of real national pride, capable on occasion
of breaking out in fleeting enthusiasm for the idea of
State-unity, but incapable of commanding itself--
incapable of the greatest task which is laid upon modern
nations. Only those citizens who have learnt, by self-
government, to act as statesmen in case of need are able
to colonise, to spread the blessings of Western civilisa-
tion among barbarians. The management of the business
of the community by paid State officials may be techni-
cally more perfect and may be better than the principle of
the division of labour; yet a State which allows its citizens,
of their own free-will, to look after districts and com-
munities in honorary service, gains moral force by the
self-consciousness, by the living, practical patriotism,
of the citizens--forces which the sole rule of State
officialdom can never evolve. Assuredly this admission
on our part was a significant deepening of our ideas of
freedom, but it by no means contains the ultimate
truth. For, if we inquire where this self-government
of all small local districts exists, we discover with as-
tonishment that the numerous small tribes in Turkey
enjoy this blessing in a high degree. They pay then-
taxes, for the rest they live as they please, look after
their pigs, hunt, kill each other, and find themselves
quite happy with it all--until suddenly a Pasha visits
the tribe, and proves to the dullest understanding, by
means of impalement and drowning in sacks, that the
self-government of the communities is an illusion, if the
U
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highest powers of the State do not operate within fixed
limits of the laws.
Thus, finally, we come to the conclusion that political
freedom is not, as the Napoleons assert, an ornament
which may be set upon a perfectly-constructed State
like a golden cupola; it must permeate and inspire the
whole State. It is a profound, comprehensive, extremely
consistent system of political rights which tolerates
no gaps. There can be no Parliament without free
communities, no free communities without Parliament;
and neither can be permanent if the middle factors
between the top of the State and the communities,
namely, the various districts and departments, are not
also administered by a concentration of the personal
activity of independent citizens. We Germans have
felt these gaps painfully for a long time, and are just
now making the first modest endeavours to fill them.
Nevertheless, a State dominated by a government
carried on by the majority of its people, with a Parlia-
ment, with an independent judiciary, with districts and
communities which administer themselves, is, despite
all, not yet free. It has to set limits to its operation,
it has to admit that there are personal properties of so
high and unassailable a nature that the Statej;must
never subject them to itself. Let no one sneer too
presumptuously at the fundamental principles of the
more recent Constitutions. In the midst of phrases
and silliness they contain the Magna Charta of personal
freedom, with which the modern world will not again
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dispense. Free movement in religious faith, and in
knowledge and in affairs generally, is the watchword of
the times; in this domain it has had the greatest effect;
this social freedom is developing the essence of all
political desires for the great majority of men. It may
be asserted that wherever the State resolved to let a
branch of social activity grow unhindered its self-
control was gloriously rewarded; all the predictions
of timorous pessimists fell to the ground. We have
become a different nation since we have been drawn
into closer intercourse with the world and its ways.
Even two generations ago Ludwig Vincke, like the
careful president he was, explained to his Westphalians
how to set about building a high-road by means of a
company, on the English plan. To-day, a dense net
of associations of every kind is spread over German
territory. We know that through his merchants the
German will, at the least, share in the noble destiny of
our race, and fructify the wide world. And it is even
now no empty dream that an act of government will
presently result from that intercourse with the world,
compared with whose world-embracing outlook all the
activities of modern Great Powers will seem like sorry
provincialism, so immeasurably rich and many-sided
is the essence of freedom. Therein lies the consoling
certainty that it is never impossible at any time to work
for the victory of freedom. For should a government
temporarily succeed in undermining the people's partici-
pation in legislation, men of to-day, with their impulse
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for freedom, would simply throw their energies with
the more violence into economic or spiritual activities,
and the results in the one sphere influence the other
sooner or later. Let us leave it to boys, and those
nations which ever remain children, to hunt for freedom
with passionate haste, like some phantom that dissolves
at the touch of its pursuers. A mature people loves
liberty, like its lawful wife; she is part of us, she enrap-
tures us day by day with fresh charms.
But new, undreamed-of dangers to freedom arise
with the growth of civilisation. It is not only the
State-power which may be tyrannical, but also the
unorganised majority of a society may subject the
minds of its citizens to odious compulsion by the slow
and imperceptible, yet irresistible, force of its opinion.
And it is beyond doubt that the danger of an intolerable
limitation of the independent development of personality,
by means of public opinion, is especially great in demo-
cratic States. For, whilst during the absence of freedom
under the old regime, at least a few privileged classes
were allowed, without hindrance, to develop, brilliantly,
their individual gifts, whether for good or for evil; the
middle classes, who will determine Europe's future,
are not free from a certain preference for the mediocre.
They are justly proud of the fact that they are trying
to drag down to their own level everything that rises
above them, and to raise up to the level all those that
are beneath them ; and they may base their desire to be
determining factors in the lives of States on a glorious
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title, on a great deed which they, together with the old
Monarchy, have achieved, namely, on the emancipation
of our lower classes. But woe to us if this tendency
to equality, which has ripened the most precious fruit
in the domain of common right, goes astray in the
domain of individual evolution! The middle classes
hate all open, violent tyranny, but they are much in-
clined to nullify, by the ostracism of public opinion,
everything that rises above a certain average of culture,
of spiritual nobility, of audacity. The love of liberty
which distinguishes them and makes them, as such,
the most capable political order, is liable to degenerate
only too easily into idle complacency, into an unthinking,
sleepy endeavour to blink and gloss over all the con-
tradictions of intellectual life, and only to tolerate alert
activity in the sphere of material operations (of "im-
provement ! "). We are not here giving utterance to
vain hypotheses. Far from it. The yoke of public
opinion presses heavier than elsewhere in the freest
great States of modernity--in England and the United
States. The sphere of what the community permits
the citizen to think and to do as an honourable and
decent being is there incomparably narrower than with
us. If you have knowledge of the memorable discus-
sions about the Constitution at the Convention of
Massachusetts in the year 1853, if you know with
what spirit and passion the doctrine was then cham-
pioned that "a citizen may certainly be the subject
of a party, or an actual power (! ), but never the subject
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of the State," you will not underrate the peril of a lapse
into conditions of harsh morality and weakened rights--
the danger of the social tyranny of the majority. Mill
has excellently pointed this out, and therein lies the
significance of his book for the present time. He in-
vestigates, quite apart from the form of government,
the nature and limits of the power which Society should
suitably exercise over the individual. Humboldt saw
danger for personal liberty only in the State; he scarcely
thought that the society of beautiful and distinguished
minds, which associated with him, could ever hinder
the individual in the complete evolution of his personality.
However, we know now that they may be not only a
"free sociability " but also a tyrannical public opinion.
In order to understand to what extent Society should
use its power over the individual it is best, first of all,
to throw gleefully overboard a question over which
political thinkers have unnecessarily spent many un-
happy hours, namely: Is the State only a means for
furthering the objects in life of the citizens? Or is it
the sole object of the citizens' well-being to bring into
existence a beautiful and good collective life? Hum-
boldt, Mill, and Laboulaye, and the collective Liberalism
of the Rotteck-Welcker school, decide for the former;
the ancients, as is well known, for the latter. We
think the one opinion is worth as little as the other;
for the whole world admits that a relation of reciprocal
rights and duties connects the State with its citizens.
But reciprocity is unthinkable between entities which
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are related to one another simply as means and object.
The State is itself an object, like everything living;
for who can deny that the State lives quite as real a life
as each of its citizens? How wonderful that we Ger-
mans, with our provincialism, have to admonish a
Frenchman and an Englishman to think more highly
of the State! Mill and Laboulaye both live in mighty
respected States; they take that rich blessing for granted
and perceive in the State only the terrifying power
which threatens the liberty of man. We Germans
have had our esteem for the dignity of the State for-
tified by painful experience. When we are asked by
strangers about our "narrower Fatherland," and a
scornful smile plays around the lips of the hearers at the
mention of the name of Reuss, of the younger line, or
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen's principality, we feel in-
deed that the State is something bigger than a means
for lightening the burdens of our private lives. Its
honour is ours, and he who cannot look upon his State
with enthusiastic pride, his soul is lacking in one of the
highest feelings of man. If to-day our best men are
trying to build up a State for this nation which shall
deserve respect, they are inspired in their task, not only
by the desire to spend their personal existence hence-
forth in greater security, but they also know they are
fulfilling a moral duty, which is imposed upon every
nation.
The State that protected our forefathers with its
justice; which they defended with their bodies; which
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the living are called upon to build further, and higher-
developed children, and children's children, to inherit;
which, therefore, is a sacred bond between many genera-
tions--the State, I say, is an independent order, which
lives according to its own laws. The views of rulers
and ruled can never altogether coincide; they will
assuredly reach the same goal in a free and mature
State, but by widely divergent paths. The citizen
demands from the State the highest possible measure
of personal liberty, because he wants to live himself
out, to develop all his powers. The State grants it,
not because it wants to oblige the individual citizen,
but it is considering itself, the whole. It is bound to
support itself by its citizens; but in the moral world
only that which is free, which is also able to resist, sup-
ports. Thus, truly, the respect which the State pays the
individual and his liberty gives the surest measure of
its culture; but it pays that respect primarily, because
political freedom, which the State itself acquires, is
impossible with citizens who do not themselves look
after their most private affairs without hindrance.
This indissoluble connection between political and
personal liberty, especially the essence of liberty, as of
a closely-cohering system of noble rights, has not been
properly understood by either Mill or Laboulaye. The
former, in full enjoyment of English civic rights, silently
assumes the existence of political freedom; the latter,
under the oppression of Bonapartism, does not dare
even to think about it. And yet personal freedom,
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without the political, leads to the dissolution of the
State. He who only sees in the State a means for
obtaining the objects in life of the citizens must, con-
sequentially, after the good mediaeval manner, seek
freedom from the State, not freedom in the State. The
modern world has outgrown that error. Still less,
however, may a generation which lives predominantly
for social aims, and is only able to devote a small part
of its time to the State, fall into the opposite error of
the ancients. This age is called upon to resume in
itself, and to further develop, the indestructible results
of the labours of culture, and, likewise, of the political
work of antiquity and the Middle Age. Thus it arrives
at the harmonising and yet independent conclusion
that there is a physical necessity, and a moral duty, for
the State to further everything that serves the personal
evolution of its citizens. And, again, there is a physical
necessity, and a moral duty, for the individual to take
his part in a State, and to make even personal sacrifices
to it, which the maintenance of the community demands,
even the sacrifice of his life. And, indeed, man is subject
to this duty, not merely because it is only as a citizen
that he can become a complete man, but also because
it is an historical ordinance that mankind build States,
beautiful and good States. The historical world affords
superabundant evidence of such conditions of reciprocal
rights, of reciprocal dependence; everything condi-
tioned appears in it at the same time as a conditioning
entity. It is precisely that fact which often makes the
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comprehension of things political difficult to arrive at
mathematical minds, which, like Mill, are fond of reaching
conclusion by means of a radical law.
Mill now tries to draw the permissible limits of the
operation of Society with the sentence: The interference
of Society with personal liberty is only justified when it is
necessary, in order to protect the community itself,
or to hinder injury by others. We shall not contradict
this saying--if only it were not so entirely futile! How
small is the effect of such abstract maxims of natural
law in an historical science! For is not the " self-protec-
tion of the community " historically capable of change?
Is it not the duty of a theocratic State, for the sake of
self-protection, to tyrannously interfere, even with the
thoughts of its citizens? And do not those common
labours, which are "necessary for the community,"
which the citizen must be compelled to discharge, vary
essentially according to time and place? There is no
absolute limit to the State-power, and it is the greatest
merit of modern science that it has taught politicians
to reckon only with relative ideas. Every advance of
civilisation, every widening of national culture, necessarily
make the State's activity more varied. North America,
too, is experiencing that truth: the State and Society
in the big towns there are also being obliged to develop a
manifold activity, which is not needed in a primeval forest.
The much-vaunted voluntarism, the activity of free
private associations, is not by any means sufficient in
all cases to satisfy the needs of our Society. The net of
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our intercourse has such small meshes that a thousand
collisions between rights and interests necessarily occur;
it is the duty of the State in both instances to intervene
conciliatingly as an impartial power. In the same way
there exist in every highly-civilised nation big private
powers which actually exclude free competition; the
State has to restrain their selfishness, even if they do
not injure any rights of third parties. The English
Parliament some years ago ordered the railway companies
not only to attend to the safety of the passengers, but
also to allow a certain number of so-called Parliamentary
trains to run at the usual rates for all classes of carriages.
Nobody can say that there is an exceeding of the sensible
limits of the State-power in this law, which makes
travelling possible for the lower classes. But if you see in
the State merely an institution for safety you can only
defend the measure by means of very artificial and
unconvincing argument; for who has a right to demand
that he should be carried from A to B for three shillings?
The railway company has certainly no monopoly by
law, and it is free to anyone to construct a parallel line!
No, the modern State cannot do without an extensive
positive activity for the people's benefit. In every nation
there are spiritual and material properties, without
which the State cannot exist. A constitutional State
assumes a high average of national culture; it may
never leave it to the pleasure of parents whether they
want to give their children the most needful education;
it requires compulsory education. The sphere of these
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benefits, which are requisite for the community's existence,
is inevitably widened by the growth of civilisation.
Who would seriously propose to shut up the precious
art institutions in our States? We old cultured nations
shall certainly not relapse into the crude conception which
sees a luxury in art; it is like our daily bread to us. In
point of fact, the demand for the extremest limitation
of State-activity is the more loudly urged in theory
to-day the more it is contradicted by practice, even in
free countries. The school of Tocqueville, Laboulaye, and
Charles Dollfus grew up in combat with an all-embracing
State-power which wanted, not to guide, but to replace
Society, under the Second Empire--a school which goes
beyond its mark, and discerns in the State simply an
obstacle, an oppressing force. Even Mill is dominated
by the opinion that the greater the power of the State
the smaller the freedom. The State, however, is not the
citizens' foe. England is free, and yet the English police
have a very great dicretionary power and is bound
to have it; it is enough if a citizen may make any
official answerable in a law-court.
Luckily, another historical law is operating in opposi-
tion to the increasing growth of State-power. In propor-
tion as the citizens become riper for self-government the
State is under obligation--nay, is physically obliged--
to operate in a more varied way so far as comprehensive-
ness is concerned, but more moderately so far as method
is concerned. If the immature State was a guarantee for
individual branches of national activity, the guardian-
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ship of the highly-developed State embraces the sum
total of national life, but it operates, as far as possible,
only as a force that spurs on, instructs, clears away
impediments. A mature people must therefore demand
these things of the State for the assurance of its personal
liberty: The most fruitful outcome of the metaphysical
fights for freedom during the past century, namely,
the truth that the citizen must never be utilised by the
State merely as a means, should be recognised as a true
fundamental principle. Next, all activity on the part
of the Government is beneficial which brings forth,
furthers, purifies, the individual activity of the citizens;
all Government activity is evil which suppresses the
activity of individuals; for the whole dignity of the
State rests ultimately on the personal worth of its
citizens, and that State is the most moral which
combines the powers of the citizens for the purpose
of accomplishing the greatest number of works beneficial
to the Society, and yet permits each one, honestly
and independently, to pursue his personal development
untouched by compulsion on the part of the State and
public opinion. Thus we agree with Mill and Laboulaye
in the final result--in the desire for the highest possible
degree of personal liberty--although we do not share their
view of the State as an obstacle to freedom.
And what significance do these reflections on personal
liberty possess for us? The presentiment of a great
and decisive movement is permeating the world, and
imposing on every nation the question, what value it
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puts on personal freedom, on the personal independence
of its citizens. We Germans in particular cannot evade
the question, we, whose whole future rests, not on the
established power of all our States, but on the personal
thoroughness of our people. The historical facts are
dominant that only a nation which is imbued with a
strong sense of personal freedom can win, and keep poli-
tical freedom, and that the well-being of real personal
freedom is only possible under the protection of political
freedom, since despotism, in whatever shape it may
appear, is only able to give rein to the lower passions,
to commerce^ and commonplace ambition.
The most precious and especial possession of our
nation, which will yet constitute the German State a new
phenomenon in political history, is the Germans' invin-
cible love of personal freedom. Many will smile at this,
and put the bitter question: Where are the fruits of
this love? And indeed we redden as we confront that
stately line of legislative measures which the Anglo-
Saxon race has passed for its personal freedom. Mill
is far from deifying our nation; as has been said of him
with some justice, he inwardly feels his near kinship
with the German genius, but he is afraid of the weaknesses
of our temperament; he deliberately avoids penetrating
too deeply into German literature, and holds to French
models. And the same man confesses that in no country,
except Germany alone, are people capable of understanding
and aspiring to the highest and purest personal liberty,
the all-sided evolution of the human spirit!
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Our science is the freest on earth; it tolerates no compul-
sion, either from without or within; it aims at the truth,
nothing but the truth, without any prejudice. The
opinionativeness of our learned men became a by-word,
yet it goes very well together with a frank acknowledg-
ment of an adversary's scientific importance. A free
mind, which goes its own way, and not the well-worn way
of the schools, and reaches important results, may with
certainty finally count upon cordial agreement. The
most stupid police tutelage did not succeed in breaking
down the Germans' ardour for personal idiosyncrasy.
It is a conviction which has taken firm root in the lowest
strata of our nation, that in all questions of conscience
every man must decide for himself alone. In the tiniest
States, which would entirely distort the character of
any other people, the ideal of free human development is
preached to the youth, namely, the fearless seeking after
truth, the evolution of character from within outwards, the
harmonious growth of all human gifts. And, as freedom
and toleration necessarily go hand in hand, nowhere
is the tolerance of different opinions so much at home as
with us; we leamt it in the hard school of those religious
wars which this nation fought for the salvation of the
whole of humanity. Ours, too, is the noblest blessing
of inward freedom: beautiful moderation. The most
daring thoughts about the highest problems which trouble
mankind are uttered by Germans. Human respect for
everything human became second nature to the German.
Let nobody believe that the free scientific activity of
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the Germans is a welcome lightning-conductor to the
existing State authorities. All intellectual gains of
which a nation can be proud influence the State-life as
one pledge more for its political greatness. We are slowly
proceeding from intellectual to political work, as Germany's
recent history clearly shows, and we may expect with
certainty that the independent courage of German learned
men in the search for truth will react on the whole nation.
Inclination and capacity for self-government are
abundant among us. Towns like Berlin and Leipzig
are at least on level terms with the great English com-
munities in the excellence of their administration, in the
common feeling dominating their inhabitants. And how
much natural talent and inclination for genuine personal
liberty dwell in our fourth estate is revealed more clearly
every year in the trade unions.
The last and supreme requisite of personal freedom
is that the State and public opinion must allow the
individual to develop in his individual character, both
in thought and in act. What Mill announces to his
fellow-countrymen as a new thing has long been common
property in Germany, namely, Humboldt's doctrine of
the "individuality of capacity and culture," of the
"highest and harmonious evolution of all capacities,"
which thrives by means of freedom and multiplicity of
situations, that unique combination of the Platonic
sense of beauty and Kant's severity which mark the
zenith of German humanity.
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? INDEX.
Aachen, 64
Aachen, Congress of, 177
Achilles, 9
Acragas, 196
Adrianople, Peace of, 275
Adriatic, 171
Africa, 307, 208, 211, 212
Ahlwardt, 119
Albert, Prince, 283
Albertina University, 225
Alexander, Czar, 272, 285, 286,
287, 288
Alfieri, Vittorio, 298
Allien " On Tyranny," 299
Allgemeine Zeitung, no, 123, 127
Alsace, 64, 65, 129, 155, 231, 240,
270
Alsace-Lorraine, 168
Alsace Lothing, 79, 82
America, 163, 197, 204
American War of Independence,
201
Amsterdam, 239
Ancillon, 276
Andrassy, Count, 247, 248, 250
Anglo-Saxon, 201, 318
Angra Pequena, 194
Anzengruber, 115
Arelat, 231
Aristotle, 100, 296, 304
Armoriai, 231
Arndt, 132
Arnold von Brescia, 43
Athens, 196
Auerbach, Berthold, 120
Augustenberg, 16, 32
Augustas, 41
Austerlitz, 20
Austria, 22, 27, 28, 39, 53, 55,
130, 151, 208, 218, 242, 243,
245, 247, 250, 251, 252, 253,
254, 255. 256, 258, 260, 262,
263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 269,
271, 273, 274, 275, 280, 287,
290
Baden, n, 24, 28, 33, 35, 37, 51,
53. 54. 55. 57. 61, 78. 97.
127, 136, 216, 219
Bale, 232
Balkans, 264
Baltic Provinces, 269, 270
Barbarossa, 36
Baumbach, 115
Baumgarten, 16, 21, 25, 35, 63,
81, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132,
133. 134
Bavaria, 53, 55, 65
Becker, Oscar, 25, 214
Belfort, 156
Belgium, 64, 164, 230, 233, 235,
236, 237
Benedetti, 61, 219
Bentham, 295
Bergmann, von, 226
Berlin, 10, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 37,
46, 49, 51, 52, 61, 68, 75, 79,
81, 84, 93, 94, 98, 100, 102,
104, 105, 108, 109, 116, 117,
? ? 122, 123, 125, 128, 227, 245,
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INDEX
Clairvauz, Bemhard von, 43
Clausewitz, 140, 214
Clerveaux, 236
Coburg, Duke of, 247
Coburg, House of, 222
Cohen, Blind, 23
Columbus, 193
Concordat, 121, 248, 254
Congo, 207
Congo Conference, 212
Conservatives, 128
Constantinople, 172
Constitution, Imperial, of 1849,
<<5
Bodensee, 133
Bodenstedt, 115
Bodman, Emma von, 13
Bodman, Freiherr von, 13
Bohemia, 92. 156, 243, 248, 239,
262, 290
Bohemian War, 218
Bonn, 13
Borgia, Cesare, 42, 158
Borne, 61
Bosnia, 291
Bourbaki, 155
Brandt, Sebastian, 64
Brater, 21
Braters, 11
Brann, 26
Braunschweigers, 25
Brazil, 206
"Bredow, The Trousers of Herr
von," 71
Bresslau, 113, 266
Breusch, 231
British Empire, 146
Bruegge, 49
Brussels, 182, 183, 232, 236
Burgundy, Philip of, 236
Caesar, 41, 229
Caligula, 41
Calvin, 49
Cameroon? , 113
Caprivi, 51, 128
Carlyle, 149
Carmen Sylva, 47
Catholic Church, 122
Cato, 79
Cavour, 60
Central Africa, 212
Central Asia, 212
Central European Alliance, 221
Chambord, 85
Champagne, 143
Charles V, 41, 49, no
Charles X, 276
Chili, 210
China, 195, 210
Christianity, 121, 296
Chulm, 223
Cisleithania, 246, 248, 249, 253,
257, 261, 262, 264, 265
Cracow, 250, 239
Creuzer, 107
Crimean War, 282
Croatia, 249
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323
Egelhaaf, 130
Ehrenberg, 49
Eichhorn, 276
Ekkard, 92
Elbe, 198
Eliot's, George, "Daniel De-
ronda," 114, 115
Ems, 219
England, 17, 40, 49, 140, 146, 165,
167, 186, 189, 191, 202, 207,
208, 210, 212, 222, 275, 280,
287, 290, 293, 309, 316
English Parliament, 315
English Princess Royal, 222
Ense, von, 284
Erasmus, 41
Erdmansdoerffer, 120, 131, 134,
137
Ernani, 71
Eugene, Prince, 260
Europe, 48, 163, 177, 200, 205,
209, 210, 229, 232, 250, 268,
281, 308
European War, 157
Evangelical Church, 122
Fabri, 202
Falk, 85, 96, 98, 99
Ferdinand, no
Feudalists, 248
Feund, Duke, 33
Fichte, 62
Flanders, 204
Fleming, Count, 25
Fontane, 115
Forster, 117
France, 19, 49, 86, 147, 148,
149, 150, 156, 167, 174, 176,
179, 183, 186, 205, 207, 208,
311, 223, 231, 233, 234, 235,
236, 238, 244, 262, 269, 275,
278, 280, 282, 285, 288, 290,
293
Francis Joseph, 258
Franco-Prussian War, 181
Franc-tireurs, 182
Frankenstein Clause, 84
Frankfort, 20, 76
Frankfort Conference, 219
Frankfort Parliament, 216
Frankfurter Zeitung, 41, 42
Frautenau, 29
Frederick III, Emperor, 266
Frederick, Crown Prince, 194
Frederick, Emperor, 25, 228, 304
Frederick William I, 221
Frederick William II, 289, 294
Frederick William III, 221, 224,
272, 274, 289
Frederick William IV, 94, 131,
216, 278, 279, 281
Frederick William, Prince, 222
Frederick the Great, 41, 142, 152,
169. 173. i88
Freiburg, n, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 39.
54, 81, 107
Freidreich, 36, 38
? ? Freiligrath, 115
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324
198, 199. 202, 203, 205, 207,
209, 211, 218, 219, 222, 231,
236. 237. 239, 243, 244. 245.
250, 252, 254, 262, 268, 269,
270, 277. 282, 285, 287, 290,
293. 320
Gervinus, 9
Ghent, 236
Gneisenau, 214
God, 160
Goethe, 90, 117, 200, 221
Goethe, Frau Rat, 20
Goething, 33
Goldschmidt, 57, 113
Gortschakofi, 164, 287
Gossler, 126
Gottingen, 89, 122
Gravelotte, 66
Graz, 261
Great Britain, 234
Greece, 196
Grenzbote, 25, 134
Grimm, Hermann, 10, 35, 72
Grimm, Rudolf, 48
Groot, Clans, 115
Guelfs, 77, 80
Gtissfeld, 51
Gustavus Adolphns, 40
Gutschmid, 13, 32. 5>>. r37
Gutzkow, 115
Hahnke, 51
Hanover, 33
Hans Daps, 125
Hansa, 207
Hansa League, 171
Hansa Towns, 212
Hanseatic League, 199
Hansen's " Coulisses de la Diplo-
matie," 288
Hapsburg, 132, 244, 250, 255. 256
Hapsburg-Lothring, 252, 254
Hardenberg, 271, 274
Hartmann, 72, 73
Hausrath's Jetta, 71, 72
Hausser, 9, 16, 24, 31, 35, 38,
69
Hebbel, 71, 259
Heffter, 159
Hegeswisch, 30
Hehn, 119
Heidelberg, 10, 16, 20, 28, 31, 32,
33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 39. 41. 42.
44. 45. 47. 51. 57. 58, 59. 67,
68, 79, 81, 89, 93, 94, 96, 97,
98, 100, 105, 107, 108, 109,
112, 121, 126. 134, 135
Heidelberg Castle, 70
Heidelberg Journal, 54
Heidelberg Museum, 19
Heidelberg Zeitung, 54
Heigel, 133
Heine, 101, 119
Heissporn, Percy, 106
Helm, 104
Herder, 107
Hermes, 225
Herrmann, 89, 98, 122, 126
? ? Hesekiel, 71
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325
Japan,195,210
Jenssen, 115
Jesuits, 175
Jesus, 127
Jews, 114, 115, ti6, 117, 118, 120,
121, 123, 226
Johann, 34
Jolly, 35, 36, 37, 44, 53, 56, 57,
58, 59. 83. 87, 104
Julius II, 41
July Revolution, 278
Kamphausen, 39
Kamphausen's Battle of Freiburg,
'37
Kant, 295, 320
Karl of Mechlenburg, Duke, 276
Karlowitze, 35
Karoline, 33
Karlsruhe, 16, 17, 22, 24, 25, 35,
36, 52, 58, 72, 8:, 83, 84, 92,
128
Kasimierz, 250
Keifer, 56
Kettler, 77
Kiel, 13, 16, 31, 32, 33
Kieper, 58
Kitzing, 107
Kleist, 71
Klerf, 236
Klopp. 41
Knesebeck, 276
Knies, 86, 88, 89, 100, 101, 103
Kochly, 87
Koerner, 9, 10
Kollin, 218
Kolnische Zeiiung, 127
Koniggratz, 25, 35, 152, 217, 223,
245, 255, 265
Konigsberg, 17, 226, 251
Konigstein, 156
Konstamer Zeiiung, 17
Krain, 248, 291
Ktiuz Zeiiung, 100, 123
Kruger, no
Kurhessen, 33
Kurland, 270
Kusel, 58
Kutschke, 231
Kyfihauber, 36
Laboulaye, 294, 295, 310, 311,
312, 316, 317
Laboulaye, "L'etat et ses limits"
294
La Chartre, 66
Lamartine, 285, 303
Lamey, 24, 56, 57
La Plata, 210
Lamprecht, no
Lasker, 55, 99
Latour, 92
Lausanne, 232
Leber, 108
Leine, 298
Leipzig, 10, n, 12, 30, 52, 88, 89,
109, 117, 118, 219, 320
Leipzig, Battle of, 112, 222
Leitha, 260, 265
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Marxburg, 33
Massachusetts, 309
Mathy, 9. 15. 16. 24, 35, 37,
55. 56
May Convention, 234, 238, 239
"Maurice, Our," 49
Maurice of Saxony, 11o
Mecklenburg, 79, 80
Medici, Lorenzo, 41
Melac, 185
Mentzel's Great Elector, 137
Metternich, 132, 272, 273, 276
Metz, 157, 232, 235, 256
Michelangelo, 72
Middle Ages, 117, 145
Mill, 296, 310, 311, 312, 314, 316,
3>>7. 320
Mill on Liberty, 294
Mill's " Utilitarianism," 295
Milton, 137
Mitau, 286
Moltke, 154
Mommsen, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120
Monke, 115
Montecucoli, 152
Montesquieu, 302
Moravia, 248
Moscow, 245
Motz, 214, 276
Muffling, 277
Miihler, von, 80, 93, 96, 121
Mulhouse, 64
Munich, 35, 52, 84, 266
Miinster of Stein, 29
Munster River, 1
1
Nahe, 73
Napoleon, 10, 20, 40, 121, 153,
166, 167, 183, 303, 306
Napoleon III, 154, 283, 304
Nassau, 33, 239
National Convention, 302
Nationalists, 56
Nebenius, 37
Neckar, 44, 67, 104
Netherlands, 60, 199, 233, 237,
238
New York, 104
Nibelungs, 71
Niebuhr, 168
Nietzsche, 72, 73
Nicholas, Czar, 276, 280, 281, 283,
285
Noisseville, 153
Nokk, 13, 16, 37, 59
Normandy, 150
North America, 205
North German Confederation, 233
286
Nqvalis, 9
Nymwegen, 164
Offenburg, 56, 57
Olmutz, 281
Oppenhcim, 113
Orange, House of, 233, 239
Orleans, 85
Orleans, Maid of, 68
? ? Ottoman Empire, 277
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