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Revolutions--Not unknown in Germany--Prussia and the Hohenzollerns--Frederick the Great--Germany under foreign domination--The Battle of the brotherhood of man--Lassalle's national Socialists join the _Internationale_--Germany's political backwardness--The war of 1870-71--Erection of the German Empire--Why the Reichstag failed to become a real parliament--The Emperor's powers as Kaiser and as King of Prussia.