Gladstone first came into contact with Bismarck,—the genius of popular right, and free government, and settled law of nations, into contact with the genius of force and reason of state and blood and iron—the realist minister of Prussia seemed to be almost as hopeful for European peace as the minister of England.
Morley reflects on the contrasting ideals of Gladstone and Bismarck during their first encounter.
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