Prussia, meantime, is spending its strength in the vain, though apparently successful, endeavor to consolidate a country under absolute control, that is impossible of a people so numerously and diffusively represented, in a country where freedom is the rule.
She critiques Prussia's attempts to consolidate power in a diverse population, emphasizing the impossibility of absolute control.
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