Author: Charles Lowe

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780364127995

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Excerpt from Bismarck's Table-Talk Twenty-eight years! That was a very long time for any Minister to be continuously in harness, struggling with infinitely more than the labours of a Hercules. In some countries - England, for example - the out and in, or see-saw, system of party govern ment has its advantages. But I fear that it would have been unsuited to the particular kind of work which Bismarck was called upon to accomplish. The unity of the Fatherland was a work which demanded unity of purpose and continuity of effort; and Bismarck, alone, perhaps, among all his countrymen, had at once the physical and the mental character istics which fitted him for the performance of this task. Within five-and-twenty years of the fall of the Second Empire, France had well on to forty different Ministries. But from 1862, when Bismarck was called to office, till 1890, when he was dismissed from it, the policy of Prussia and Germany was constantly in the hands of one man. The elder Pitt was the English Bismarck of his day, but he never enjoyed such a continuous spell of opportunity for making his country great and glorious as his Teutonic after-type. In this respect Bismarck's position was unique, just as the products of his power are almost unparalleled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Download or read book Bismarck's Table-Talk (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Lowe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bismarck's Table-Talk Twenty-eight years! That was a very long time for any Minister to be continuously in harness, struggling with infinitely more than the labours of a Hercules. In some countries - England, for example - the out and in, or see-saw, system of party govern ment has its advantages. But I fear that it would have been unsuited to the particular kind of work which Bismarck was called upon to accomplish. The unity of the Fatherland was a work which demanded unity of purpose and continuity of effort; and Bismarck, alone, perhaps, among all his countrymen, had at once the physical and the mental character istics which fitted him for the performance of this task. Within five-and-twenty years of the fall of the Second Empire, France had well on to forty different Ministries. But from 1862, when Bismarck was called to office, till 1890, when he was dismissed from it, the policy of Prussia and Germany was constantly in the hands of one man. The elder Pitt was the English Bismarck of his day, but he never enjoyed such a continuous spell of opportunity for making his country great and glorious as his Teutonic after-type. In this respect Bismarck's position was unique, just as the products of his power are almost unparalleled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.