Treitschke´s History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Treitschke´s History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 5 This is one way of writing history, but it is not the most gracious or the most persuasive way. Treitschke´s censorious attitude was also dangerous, for his irrational prejudices frequently led him into arrogant assumptions, which, very unfortunately for his reputation as a moralist and a prophet, proved fallacious. If the effort were worth the trouble it would be possible to show how again and again events gave the lie to his boastful claims of Prussia´s superior virtue and to his suspicion of the honour and probity of other countries unsympathetic to him. Take, for example, the question, now so near to all of us, of the declaration of Belgian independence as dealt with in this volume. When the status of that country was being determined by the Powers in 1830, in consequence of the rising against Dutch rule, it was a Prussian plenipotentiary, Count Bülow, who proposed that Belgium should be declared neutral under the joint guarantee of the Powers, just as it was a Prussian plenipotentiary, Count Bernstorff, who, over a generation later, at the London Conference of 1867, proposed that Luxemburg´s neutrality and integrity should be substantiated by a similar collective pledge. Treitschke cannot record the former fact without the usual sneer at his bugbear England. "It remained extremely dubious," he says, "whether England would not some day as tranquilly abandon the new protégé [Belgium] as she was now abandoning the old [Holland]. But the joint guarantee of the Powers might well be expected to make matters safe for two or three decades." The sneer is malicious and pointless. All the Powers were favourable to Belgium´s independence, not only as a just solution of the problem but as the only possible solution. Prussia from interested motives would have helped the Dutch to dragoon the Belgians had she dared, but she had no choice but to fall in with the action of the other Powers and make of necessity a virtue. Again, resenting Palmerston´s suspicion that Bülow later was receiving sympathetically Talleyrand´s proposal that Belgium should be partitioned between France, Prussia, and Holland, the virtuous historian asks indignantly: "How could the Prussian have agreed to commit his King to such a robbery?" 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.
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