Produced by Markus Brenner, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) BLOOD and IRON _Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck_ BY JOHN HUBERT GREUSEL THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS 114-116 E. 28th St. New York 1915 Copyright, 1915, John Hubert Greusel _Dedicated to Stella My Wife_ CONTENTS BOOK THE FIRST: BISMARCK'S HUMAN ESSENCE Chapter I--The Man Himself 1. The Giant's Ponderous Hammer 2. Grossly Human Is Our Bismarck 3. Despite Political Bogs 4. Genius Combined with Foibles Chapter II--Blood Will Tell 5. Iron-headed Ancestry 6. Animal Basis of Rise to Power 7. "The Wooden Donkey Dies Today!" Chapter III--The Gothic Cradle 8. The Child of Destiny 9. Soft Carl, Spartan Louise Chapter IV--Sunshine and Shadow 10. Amazing Powers of Hereditary Traits 11. The Wolf's Breed 12. Twenty-eight Duels! 13. Fizzle of First Official Service BOOK THE SECOND: THE GERMAN NATIONAL PROBLEM Chapter V--The Great Sorrow 14. The German Crazy Quilt 15. The Diamond Necklace Chapter VI--Prussia's De Profundis 16. The Lash and the Kiss 17. The Prussian Downfall 18. Prussia Becomes Germany 19. Kingcraft Comes Upon Evil Days 20. The Star of Hope 21. The King Keeps Reading His Bible 22. The Deluge BOOK THE THIRD: BISMARCK SUPPORTS HIS KING Chapter VII--Fighting Fire with Fire 23. Voice in the Wilderness 24. The Young Giant 25. Speechless for One Whole Month 26. Bellowing His Defiance Chapter VIII--Bismarck Suffers a Great Shock 27. Bismarck Scorns French Political Millennium 28. Militarism as National Salvation 29. King Marches with Mob! Chapter IX--So Much the Worse for Zeitgeist 30. Not Politics--Human Nature 31. Setting Back the Century Clock 32. The Master at Work 33. Bismarck Nudges His King 34. Mystical High-flown Speeches BOOK THE FOURTH: BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER Chapter X--Socrates in Politics 35. The Frankfort School of Intrigue 36. Preparing for German Unity 37. Tyrants Are Necessary 38. Bismarck, in Naked Realism Chapter XI--The Mailed Fist 39. Democracy Stems from Aristocracy 40. Parallel Elements of Power Chapter XII--By Blood and Iron! 41. The Man of the Hour 42. Rough and Tumble 43. On Comes the Storm 44. Bismarck Decides to Rule Alone Chapter XIII--The Dream of Empire 45. Bismarck Tricks Them All 46. Prussian Domination Essential 47. By Faith Ye Shall Conquer 48. Was Bismarck a Beast?