The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times . he parliament was made up of men of talent and loftycharacter but of very little experience in politics. It frittered away its time in de-bating on theories andbills of rights whileall chance of securingrights was being in the meantimeAustria, where themost determined re-sistance to any changein the Confederationwas to be expected,had crushed the revoltin Bohemia (§ 683)and Italy (§ 692) andthus had her handsfree for an eventualinterference in Ger-man affairs. The king St. Pauls Church
The modern world, from Charlemagne to the present time; with a preliminary survey of ancient times . he parliament was made up of men of talent and loftycharacter but of very little experience in politics. It frittered away its time in de-bating on theories andbills of rights whileall chance of securingrights was being in the meantimeAustria, where themost determined re-sistance to any changein the Confederationwas to be expected,had crushed the revoltin Bohemia (§ 683)and Italy (§ 692) andthus had her handsfree for an eventualinterference in Ger-man affairs. The king St. Pauls Church at Frankfort, where the of Prussia had quar-Frankfort Parliament met. ^.^j^^ ^j^j^ j^j^ ^^^^^^_ tutional assembly and dissolved it; he himself, then, granteda constitution, but of very conservative character; his enthu-siasm for popular assemblies began to cool off. Two questions of the greatest importance confronted theFrankfort Parliament and divided it into parties: (1) shouldthe new German state be a monarchy or a republic; and(2) should the new nation include Austria with her vast non-. §687] THE FRANKFORT PARLIAMENT 663 German population. On the first point they easily came to anagreement. The vast majority of the delegates would not hearof a republic. But the second question called forth endlessdebates. The party pf Little Germany, as it was named, favoredthe total exclusion of iVustria, while the Great Germany partydemanded the inclusion of the Hapsburg lands, but was dividedon the further question whether all of Austria or only herGerman-speaking peoples should be included. Intimately con-nected with these disputes was another point, whether Austriaor Prussia should hold the leadership of the futin-e Germanstate. The discussions on these questions were protracted untilspring, 1849. Finally the parliament decided that Austriashould be excluded and that the crown of the new GermanEmpire should be offered to the king of Prussia. But un-fortunately neither Austria nor
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