. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. Bismarck had not forgotten what had caused the fall ofthe Eadowitz policy. But Eadowitz had not been wrecked uponthe insufficiency of the Prussian military system of his day, buton the actual course of foreign policy. How had this changed since the days of Erfurt and Olmiitz ? In judging of the rupture with the Diet, it must be here againborne in mind, what had become of it since 1851, what positionit had assumed towards Prussia. Count Bismarck, on the re-es-tablishment of the Diet in 1851, had been sent to Frankfurt as afriend of Austria. Prussi
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. Bismarck had not forgotten what had caused the fall ofthe Eadowitz policy. But Eadowitz had not been wrecked uponthe insufficiency of the Prussian military system of his day, buton the actual course of foreign policy. How had this changed since the days of Erfurt and Olmiitz ? In judging of the rupture with the Diet, it must be here againborne in mind, what had become of it since 1851, what positionit had assumed towards Prussia. Count Bismarck, on the re-es-tablishment of the Diet in 1851, had been sent to Frankfurt as afriend of Austria. Prussia desires to co-operate openly and free-ly with Austria, and that this was also the endeavor of CountBismarck, his whole political behavior had testified at the verytime, in the most unequivocal manner, when Austria, weakenedby internal revolution, was obliged to resort to foreign soon perceived, however, that such co-operation was impossi-ble. The necessary condition of it was the equalization of Prus- I 11 i ! ...iiOHH - :. AUSTRIAS WISH FOR A HEGEMONY. 387 sia with Austria, and this had also been promised at Bismarck could not allow Prussia to be the second Germanpower. He used to say that as Austria was one, so also Prus-sia was one; nor could he interpret the treaties in any otherway than as they were understood until 1848; that Prussia, nomore than Austria, could subordinate herself to resolutions ofthe majority. But this principal condition Austria allowed only to herself: ahegemony over Germany was the policy of Prince Schwarzen-berg, and his successors adhered to this word. Count Bismarcksoon convinced himself that all federal complaisance only calledforth further demands, that gratitude and sympathy in the policyof the empire were as little thought of as national feelings andGerman interests. Austria did not desire any nearer approach to Prussia; shewould come to any understanding. She began by securing toherself an obedient majority at
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