Look there! over yonder at the other end of the street they are unveiling a monument to Friedrich Wilhelm III., and the festival of victory is spoiled by homage paid to a despot who during twenty-seven years never redeemed his pledge to give the people a constitution.

I am forty-eight years old, and yet I have not forgotten my youthful ideas.

My generation looked forward to a united as well as to a free Germany, and hoped that unity would not come out of a war, but rather from the freewill of the German people.

It is now with us through other means, but I fear not better ones.

The aristocracy and the Church will assert themselves again, and the military system will lay its iron hand over the life of the whole nation.