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4, But without going to such lengths, and with a full realization of the influence exerted on national development by community of blood and language not to mention numerous other elements in the life of a state, an impartial mind is obliged to concede that it was Bismarck who with iron heart and iron hammer beat and fused into one symmetrical whole the age-long repellent branches of the Germanic family. P. 447/5, His profound knowledge of men and affairs gives to all his reminiscences a peculiar charm, and no less at tractive is the plain, straightforward, soldierlike manner in which he writes. P. 10/452, It is of special interest to note that it was as a member of this first Prussian parliament that Bismarck entered upon the public career in which for many years he was actively and continuously to remain. P.22/ , Ignorant of economic science, he made repeated mistakes. Even his views on the money ques tion appear to have been far from stable, and his scheme of protection was not designed to protect German manufactures so much as the interests of the landholding aristocracy. His contributions to the fiscal agencies of the country were more creditable; and whatever views one may entertain respecting his elevation of the idea of the state, it ought not to be forgotten that Prussia's acquisition of the means of transportation and communication were positive gains to the public, to say nothing of the increased opportunities their purchase afforded for carrying forward those great social reforms, like the insurance of workingmen and similar measures. Gustaf E. Karsten, Bismarck, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1908), pp. 85-101, University of Illinois Press, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27699916, Accessed: 16/05/2012 12:52 p. 8/ 91, Not that he failed to cherish the idea of national unity ; but his idea of this unity was very different from he dreams of the Francfort revolutionary patriots. p. 13/96, Born a Prussian, every inch of him, and strictly limiting his patriotism to his "narrower fatherland" as long as it stood alone among the rest of German states, dealing a priori with every non-Prussian as with a foreigner, he promptly extended the horizon of his patriotic devotion and care, when the other German states had become associated with Prussia under conditions which guaranteed due predominence to the latter, to his own native Prussia and his sovereign. p. 100,101/18, The national idea paramount at the time with the people, had little, if any part, in Bismarck's actions. His ideal was the organized state, the notion of nationality was quite subordinate to it. He did not hesitate to drive out of the German confederacy the thoroughly German provinces of Austria. He coldly left them to their fate to cope with their hordes of Slavs as best they could. He never encouraged any demonstration of German sympathies abroad. The dissatisfied German-Austrians, eager to regain their brother Germans from whom they had been torn away, he harshly rebuked, show Bismarck that their duty was loyal adherence to their own state. The German provinces in Russia never found in Bismarck a friend or protector against Russian despotism. The German-Americans Bismarck never expected to be disloyal to their adopted country. He scorned as treacherous the idea of a man living in one state and looking to another for sympathy or protection.