Men Who Have Made the New German Empire: A Series of Brief Biographic Sketches

Excerpt from Men Who Have Made the New German Empire: A Series of Brief Biographic SketchesHad Bismarck been able to plead the cause of government personally before the Reichstag, there can barely be a doubt but he would have fully succeeded in carrying with him the votes of the national-liberals and the more reasonable of the progressists. Unhappily, the chancellor's illness had thrown the entire machinery out of gear. When Atlas bends, however slightly, the burthen he carries must necessarily begin to oscillate.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.