Blood and Iron

d of human nature-resembling definitely his iron-headed barbarian

dly harking back to revolutionary origin. Bismarck's life, likewise, presents unquestioned elements of anarchistic root. Inherited from battle-born Bismarcks are forces pec

Bishofsmarck or Biscopesmarck, is associated with the little river

igin, or of Slavic if you will, you find bespectacled, scholastic au

of geographical origin, rather than a sign of nobility. The name is borne by other families from B

master of the merchant tailors of Stendal, in the old Mark of Bra

, might argue that President Taft was a steam-shoveler, because the name is found recorded among the laborers who helped d

distinction that as yet had not been bestowed on Wellington, the London tailors in a m

n, four Bismarcks, in three g

e him, and as did two sons, in their turn. But Klaus, ever shrewd in a worldly way, recommended himself as a kin

land, at Burgstal, an estate that remained in the family for two hundred years. There were deer, wild boar, wolve

ed Schoenhausen, on the Elbe, in exchange. However, Schoenhausen did not compare with the estate that the enviou

lately confiscated by the Hohenzollerns from the nuns; and one of the condit