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Title: The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891
Author: Various
Editor: B. O. Flower
Release Date: January 4, 2007 [EBook #20281]
Language: English
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THE ARENA.
No. XXI.
AUGUST, 1891.
[Illustration: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (signed "Sincerely yours Elizabeth Cady Stanton")]
THE UNITY OF GERMANY.
BY MME. BLAZE DE BURY.
"THE IDEA WHENCE SPRANG THE FACT."[1]
[1] "L'Allemagne lepnis, Leibniz. Essai sur le Développement de la Conscience Nationale en Allemagne." By Prof. Lévy Brühl, Paris. 1 vol. Hachette, 1890.
Since the Great French Revolution of 1789 and its immediate consequence in the military despotism of Bonaparte, nothing has occurred that has so convulsed the Old World and so altered the conditions of men and things, as the establishment of the United German Empire in 1870. The men of our time are obliged to know how this event came about, or remain in ignorance of all that has happened during the twenty years following it--that is, to ignore their own political status.
Now two records of this enormous c