1815-1915 (Classic Reprint): From the Congress of Vienna to the War of 1914: From the Congress of Vienna to the War of 1914 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The settlement 011814-1815 then was the work solely of princes and their ministers, and the nations concerned took no part in it. In conformity with the 18th century spirit of enlightened despotism it was governed solely by rea sons 01' State which included dynastic expediency, the interests of the governing classes. Tradition, and theories founded on the Machiavellian principles of the l6lh century, entirely unaffected by the feelings and ideas which had ins pired the Revolutions in England, America and France.

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1815-1015. - 1815, the year of the settlement which after the great wars of the Empire restored the balance that the domination of Napoleon I had overthrown; 1915, the year on the settlement which, when the great European war is ended, will deliver Europe from the preponderance of Germany the parallel is one which has forced itself on the minds of all. It is made still more striking by the date of the treaties which put an end to the domination of Louis XIV in Europe. Such comparisons of dates, indeed, like prophecies, will not hear very close examination; the treaties of Utrecht and of Rastatt belong to 1713 and 1714, the last document of the Congress of Vienna is dated June 9th, 1815 and its centenary has been reached before the dale of the third settlement. But the correspondence of dates, imperfect as it is, satisfies the mysticism of numbers which has exercised a spell over mankind ever since Pythagoras. We like to think that three times in succession, at a century's interval, the mysterious rhythm of lime has brought round the great settlement of Europe. I therefore appeal to the centenary of the Congress of Vienna as my excuse for explaining what was the nature of the settlement of 1815, how the balance of power it established was destroyed and the reason why the system which took its place has collapsed and imposed on Europe the task of a new settlement.

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