Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteeth Century (Volume 3); The Beginnings of the Germanic Federation, 1814-1819 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. TROPPAU AND LAIBACH. I. THE REVOLUTION IN THE LATIN COUNTRIES. Modern history owes its peculiar wealth, not to the nobility of a superior civilisation, but to the extent of its circle of vision, to the lively intercourse of its free society of nations. Nationalism and cosmopolitanism, patriotic and universally human ideas, have since the days of the Reformation supplemented one another and become intertwined in such manifold transitions that the severe national uniformities of antiquity and the theocratic restrictions of the Middle Ages appear in comparison almost monotonous. Now some new religious or political conception will divide the world of states into two great camps, so that national contrasts seem almost to disappear, while now the nations endeavour to isolate themselves one from another in crude self-sufficiency; now modern nations become rejuvenated through the acceptance of foreign ideas, while now again they steel themselves in the struggle against extraneous forces. Barely five years after the overthrow of the Napoleonic worldempire, the cosmopolitan power of the revolution resurged with unanticipated strength. From South America, where a young world of peoples was struggling for existence, the revolt in the beginning of 1820 reacted upon the Spanish motherland, the disturbance spreading soon to Portugal as well, all the old catchwords of the revolutions in North America and in France exercising their alluring influence. Six months later Italy also was in flames. When an additional year had elapsed Greece took up arms against her Turkish masters, and in this national struggle also there resounded the world-conquering ideas of '89: the Greek song ira'iSts rav 'EXX DEGREESmv (" Sons of the Greeks, arise ") was the last stormy echo of t...