The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . significance of the revolutionary movements in Italy,Austria, Germany, and to a less degree in France, in 1848-49. Fromthe first outbreak of the people at IVIessina, in September, 1847, andthe speech of Kossuth at Presburg, in the following JNIarch, till thelate summer of 1849, with despotism in the saddle once more, is aperiod embodjing an idea that h
The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . significance of the revolutionary movements in Italy,Austria, Germany, and to a less degree in France, in 1848-49. Fromthe first outbreak of the people at IVIessina, in September, 1847, andthe speech of Kossuth at Presburg, in the following JNIarch, till thelate summer of 1849, with despotism in the saddle once more, is aperiod embodjing an idea that has left its mark on European civiliza-tion. Finally, it bears a very special relation to the terrible war of1914. For the triumph of the national principle ^^•hich made pos-sible a miited Italj^ and a unified Germany has at the same time inten-sified the feeling of race, and put jjatriotism on close terms withcontempt and hatred for neighbors who sjieak another language. Inthe European war now raging it seems that national jealousies andnational prejudices and ambitions weigh heavy in the balance againstthe good results we associate with the triumjjh of the nationalprinciple. After the fall of Najioleon the representatives of the great. 138 REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS OF 1848 139 Powers assembled at Vienna to reconstruct the map of Eurojieand divide the spoils of war. This assemblage was called a congress,yet reallj it was not a parliament^at all. Its proceedings were vestedin a committee that marked out boundaries and apportioned kingdomsby the rule of might. The dominating nations took as much as theycould get Avithout actuallj^ coming to blows, and the little States ofEurope were obliged to be content with what was given them. AsPrince ]Metternich was the controlling spirit of the congress, theHapsburg dominions did not suffer, and Italy once more came underAustrias control. But, although absolutism in Europe had regainedits old ascendancy, the leaven of the first French Revol
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