From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History
Author: first_name: Lionel Cecil
last_name: Jane
Language: English
Year: 1910

This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to consider the restoration of the old order. Our author writes, "they rejected the ideal of 'nationality', the principle of the 'rights of peoples', opposing to it the principle of 'stability', founded upon recognition of the 'rights of sovereigns' and upon the establishment of a balance of power." This was the Metternich system, which fell before the revolutio