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BLOOD and IRON

Origin of German Empire
As Revealed by Character
of Its Founder, Bismarck

BY

JOHN HUBERT GREUSEL

THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS
114-116 E. 28th St.
New York
1915

Copyright, 1915, John Hubert Greusel

Dedicated to
Stella
My Wife

CONTENTS

[BOOK THE FIRST: BISMARCK’S HUMAN ESSENCE]
[Chapter I—The Man Himself]
[1. The Giant’s Ponderous Hammer]
[2. Grossly Human Is Our Bismarck]
[3. Despite Political Bogs]
[4. Genius Combined with Foibles]
[Chapter II—Blood Will Tell]
[5. Iron-headed Ancestry]
[6. Animal Basis of Rise to Power]
[7. “The Wooden Donkey Dies Today!”]
[Chapter III—The Gothic Cradle]
[8. The Child of Destiny]
[9. Soft Carl, Spartan Louise]
[Chapter IV—Sunshine and Shadow]
[10. Amazing Powers of Hereditary Traits]
[11. The Wolf’s Breed]
[12. Twenty-eight Duels!]
[13. Fizzle of First Official Service]
[BOOK THE SECOND: THE GERMAN NATIONAL PROBLEM]
[Chapter V—The Great Sorrow]
[14. The German Crazy Quilt]
[15. The Diamond Necklace]
[Chapter VI—Prussia’s De Profundis]
[16. The Lash and the Kiss]
[17. The Prussian Downfall]
[18. Prussia Becomes Germany]
[19. Kingcraft Comes Upon Evil Days]
[20. The Star of Hope]
[21. The King Keeps Reading His Bible]
[22. The Deluge]
[BOOK THE THIRD: BISMARCK SUPPORTS HIS KING]
[Chapter VII—Fighting Fire with Fire]
[23. Voice in the Wilderness]
[24. The Young Giant]
[25. Speechless for One Whole Month]
[26. Bellowing His Defiance]
[Chapter VIII—Bismarck Suffers a Great Shock]
[27. Bismarck Scorns French Political Millennium]
[28. Militarism as National Salvation]
[29. King Marches with Mob!]
[Chapter IX—So Much the Worse for Zeitgeist]
[30. Not Politics—Human Nature]
[31. Setting Back the Century Clock]
[32. The Master at Work]
[33. Bismarck Nudges His King]
[34. Mystical High-flown Speeches]
[BOOK THE FOURTH: BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER]
[Chapter X—Socrates in Politics]
[35. The Frankfort School of Intrigue]
[36. Preparing for German Unity]
[37. Tyrants Are Necessary]
[38. Bismarck, in Naked Realism]
[Chapter XI—The Mailed Fist]
[39. Democracy Stems from Aristocracy]
[40. Parallel Elements of Power]
[Chapter XII—By Blood and Iron!]
[41. The Man of the Hour]
[42. Rough and Tumble]
[43. On Comes the Storm]
[44. Bismarck Decides to Rule Alone]
[Chapter XIII—The Dream of Empire]
[45. Bismarck Tricks Them All]
[46. Prussian Domination Essential]
[47. By Faith Ye Shall Conquer]
[48. Was Bismarck a Beast?]
[BOOK THE FIFTH: THE GERMAN PEOPLE ARE ONE AND UNITED]
[Chapter XIV—Windrows of Corpses]
[49. Devil or Saint, Which?]
[50. Sleeping Beside the Dead]
[51. The Rejected Stone]
[52. His Ikon?]
[53. “The Dying Warrior”]
[54. Sadowa Summed Up]
[55. Manure]
[Chapter XV—The Great Year, 1870]
[56. “These Poor Times”]
[57. The Bugle Blast]
[58. Bismarck’s Ironical Revenge]
[59. The Weaver’s Hut]
[60. Zenith!]
[Chapter XVI—The Versailles Masterpiece]
[61. The Kaiser’s Crown]
[62. Divine-right, a Politico-Military Fact]
[BOOK THE SIXTH: ONCE A MAN AND TWICE A CHILD]
[Chapter XVII—The Downfall]
[63. Bismarck’s Secret Discontent]
[64. “Who Made United Germany?”]
[65. The Irony of Fate]
[66. Last Illusion Dispelled]
[67. Binding Up the Old Man’s Wounds]
[68. Awaiting the Call]
[69. Refuses to Pass Under the Yoke]
[70. Glory Turns to Ashes]
[Chapter XVIII—Hail and Farewell]
[71. His Final and Most Glorious Decoration]
[72. “As One Asleep”]

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