Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
Subjects:
Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
t out to ignore the pasttwenty years. Even in France, a school history spoke ofAusterlitz as a victory gained by General Bonaparte, a lieu-tenant of the King! The Elector of Hesse restored theancient uniforms and the wearing of queues by the soldiers, andcensured his military Commandant for omitting quarterlyreports during the preceding ten years, —in which the Electorhad been a fugitive. The King of Sardinia restored serfdom.In the Papal States and in Spain, the Inquisition and othermedieval institutions were restored. In some places Frenchplants were uprooted from the botanical gardens and Frenchmaterial improvements were abolished, — from street-lamps tovaccination.1 382. Attitude of the Five Great Powers. — The statesmenof the Great Powers must have smiled to themselves at someof these absurd extremes; but they, too, almost universally 1 Andrew D. White gives an interesting account of a Catechism of En-action, in the American Historical Association Papers, IV, Part I, 69-92.
Text Appearing After Image:
§383) THE SYSTEM OF METTERNICH. 389 strove to suppress all progress. Five states — Russia, Austria,Prussia, France, and England — really determined the policyof Europe. The first three were divine right monarchies.Eussia had not been modified by any phase of the French Rev-olution. Prussia, with all her recent reforms, was an absolutedespotism, dependent upon the whim of her king. Austria inthe main was still medieval. And though the Tsar Alexanderand Frederick William III of Prussia both played a little atliberalism, they were easily terrified by the bogie of Revolu-tion, and were soon drawn to the Austrian policy. Thatpolicy from the close of the Vienna Congress was franklyreactionary. The Emperor Francis expressed it in an addressto the professors of an Austrian college: New ideas arebeing promulgated of which I can not and will not approve.Abide by the old. They are good; our fathers prospered underthem; why should not we ? . . . I do not need wise men,but brave and obedient

Note About Images