The traditional class-system of the estates of the
realm and the organization of de-
pendent from it the King upheld more strictly
than his father; he helped with instruction and
ruthless coercion, with gifts and loans, as often
as the role which was prescribed for the peasant,
the citizen, or the nobleman in the household of
the nation no longer seemed to suffice him.
realm and the organization of de-
pendent from it the King upheld more strictly
than his father; he helped with instruction and
ruthless coercion, with gifts and loans, as often
as the role which was prescribed for the peasant,
the citizen, or the nobleman in the household of
the nation no longer seemed to suffice him.
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great
