Austria would long ago have dissolved but for the Semitic principle, and if the north of Germany has never succeeded in attaining that imperial position which seemed its natural destiny, it is that the north of Germany has never at any time been thoroughly converted.
In his biography of Lord George Bentinck, Disraeli attributes the stability of Austria and the historical trajectory of North Germany to the influence of the Semitic principle.
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