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Nay more, he dreamed of Germany's liberation at the moment when the proud conqueror disposed of her as absolute master. This thought, the thought of his whole life, Stein prepared to carry into effect at the moment when the last chance of success appeared to have vanished ; but Stein was merely the representative, the symbol, of an idea which was deeply rooted in the heart of the more influen- tial men. It is work for a mole, the historical problem of tracing those subterranean labours, which b...egin with the first days of the Empire and find their goal in the capture of Paris in 1814, an intricate mysterious web, a hundred times torn and let fall, an inextricable net composed of a multitude of personal peculiarities, 360 LIFE AND TIMES OF STEIN. [PART VI.
observations, hopes and diverging tendencies, but a net of iron which, when it was drawn together, involved the throne of Napo- leon in its meshes and hastened his fall.
The Baron vom Stein, of all the German cooperators in this work of liberation the most penetrating and the most active, belonged to a class of statesmen of whom scarcely any remains are left In those great families of the immediate imperial no- bility, which were neither Austrian nor Prussian, lived a certain independence, I might say a certain republican feeling, if the most pronounced aristocratic convictions were compatible with such a tendency; the beginning of this school went back in a sense to the cradle of the French Revolution, and its progress was parallel with that of the Revolution.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Nay more, he dreamed of Germany's liberation at the moment when the proud conqueror disposed of her as absolute master. This thought, the thought of his whole life, Stein prepared to carry into effect at the moment when the last chance of success appeared to have vanished ; but Stein was merely the representative, the symbol, of an idea which was deeply rooted in the heart of the more influen- tial men. It is work for a mole, the historical problem of tracing those subterranean labours, which b...egin with the first days of the Empire and find their goal in the capture of Paris in 1814, an intricate mysterious web, a hundred times torn and let fall, an inextricable net composed of a multitude of personal peculiarities, 360 LIFE AND TIMES OF STEIN. [PART VI.
observations, hopes and diverging tendencies, but a net of iron which, when it was drawn together, involved the throne of Napo- leon in its meshes and hastened his fall.
The Baron vom Stein, of all the German cooperators in this work of liberation the most penetrating and the most active, belonged to a class of statesmen of whom scarcely any remains are left In those great families of the immediate imperial no- bility, which were neither Austrian nor Prussian, lived a certain independence, I might say a certain republican feeling, if the most pronounced aristocratic convictions were compatible with such a tendency; the beginning of this school went back in a sense to the cradle of the French Revolution, and its progress was parallel with that of the Revolution.
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