The uplift [serial] . Germany into which Bis-marck was born on April 1, 1815,just one hundred years ago. Hereat his ancestral home, Schonhausen,he could read the sad record of mis-ery and strife, and here he could im-bibe the grim hardness of his ironforebears. As a mere stripling of seven years,Otto von Bismarck was sent to schoolin the city of Berlin. It seems pit-iful that a boy so young should bedeprived of his home, but his moth-er was a woman of great ambition,who laid much emphasis on educa-tion. She was beautiful and bril- liant, but in many ways very mother love Bismarck expe-
The uplift [serial] . Germany into which Bis-marck was born on April 1, 1815,just one hundred years ago. Hereat his ancestral home, Schonhausen,he could read the sad record of mis-ery and strife, and here he could im-bibe the grim hardness of his ironforebears. As a mere stripling of seven years,Otto von Bismarck was sent to schoolin the city of Berlin. It seems pit-iful that a boy so young should bedeprived of his home, but his moth-er was a woman of great ambition,who laid much emphasis on educa-tion. She was beautiful and bril- liant, but in many ways very mother love Bismarck expe-rienced but little. He was confirmedin Berlin by the great theologian,Schleiermacher. At the universityhe studied especially law and one year and a half he foughttwenty-five duels. After passing hisexaminations he received a position inthe State employ. But the dry le-gal work was not to his taste. Hehated it, for his wild nature desiredaction. The treadmill of routinewas stifling to him. He served his. BISMARCK year in the army and then resignedhis state position. In his blood wasthe longing to live in the countryas his fathers had done, in the count-ry over which lay the blue haze ofthe distant hills. For years Bismarck managed thecountry estates that fell to his heri-tage. He had left the university anunbeliever—had not prayed in manyyears. The people of his regionwere very religious, and so it is easyto understand that Bismarck waslooked at askance by many. Astime went on many stories of sinisternature were circulated about the wild said that he awakened hisguests by shooting a pistol bulletthrough the ceiling. Ladies wouldnt sit at dinner at the side of Ottovon Bismarck. The poetry of Byronwith its ucanny melancholy fascinat-ed him. The turning-point, however,in his life came through the brideof one of his boyhood friends, Marie von Thadden, who took a great in-terest in Bismarck, and a thousandtimes pleaded with him to retur
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