Chapter I: Front Matter

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?

BOOK THE FIFTH: THE GERMAN PEOPLE ARE ONE AND UNITED

Chapter XIV--Windrows of Corpses
49. Devil or Saint, Which?
50. Sleeping Beside the Dead
51. The Rejected Stone
52. His Ikon?
53. "The Dying Warrior"
54. Sadowa Summed Up
55. Manure

Chapter XV--The Great Year, 1870
56. "These Poor Times"
57. The Bugle Blast
58. Bismarck's Ironical Revenge
59. The Weaver's Hut
60. Zenith!

Chapter XVI--The Versailles Masterpiece
61. The Kaiser's Crown
62. Divine-right, a Politico-Military Fact

BOOK THE SIXTH: ONCE A MAN AND TWICE A CHILD

Chapter XVII--The Downfall
63. Bismarck's Secret Discontent
64. "Who Made United Germany?"
65. The Irony of Fate
66. Last Illusion Dispelled
67. Binding Up the Old Man's Wounds
68. Awaiting the Call
69. Refuses to Pass Under the Yoke
70. Glory Turns to Ashes

Chapter XVIII--Hail and Farewell
71. His Final and Most Glorious Decoration
72. "As One Asleep"