history of Europe during this year
can doubt the justice of the remark? Then he continues:

"My third reason for voting against the amnesty is humanity. The
strife of principles which during this year has shattered Europe
to its foundations is one in which no compromise is possible.
They rest on opposite bases. The one draws its law from what is
called the will of the people, in truth, however, from the law of
the strongest on the barricades. The other rests on authority
created by God, an authority by the grace of God, and seeks its
development in organic connection with the existing and
constitutional legal status ... the decision on these principles
will come not by Parliamentary debate, not by majorities of
eleven votes; sooner or later the God who directs the battle will
cast his iron dice."

These words were greeted with applause, not only by the men who sat on
his side of the House, but by those opposite to him. The truth of them
was to be shewn by the events which were taking place at that very time.
They were spoken on the 22d of March. The next day was fought the battle
of Novara and it seemed that the last hopes of the Italian patriots were
shattered. Within a few months the Austrian army subdued with terrible
vengeance the rising in Lombardy and Venetia; Hungary was prostrate
before the troops whom the Czar sent to help the young Austrian
Emperor, and the last despairing outbreak of rebellion in Saxony and in
Baden was to be subdued by the Prussian army. The Revolution had failed
and it had raised up, as will always happen, a military power, harder,
crueller, and more resolute than that it had overthrown. The control
over Europe had passed out of the hands of Metternich and Louis Philippe
to fall into those of Nicholas, Schwarzenberg, and Napoleon III.

In Prussia the King used his power with moderation, the conflict of
parties was continued within legal limits and under constitutional
forms.

The Parliament which still claimed that control over the executive
government which all Parliaments of the Revolution had exercised, was
dissolved. A new Assembly met in August; the King had of his own
authority altered the electoral law and the new Parliament showed a
considerable majority belonging to the more moderate Liberal party.
Bismarck retained his old seat. He still found much to do; his influence
was increasing; he opposed the doctrines of the more moderate Liberalism
with the s