To this perhaps we must add some personal feeling.

The Ministry had hitherto consisted almost entirely of men who were either personal friends of Bismarck, or whom he had recommended to the King.

With Radowitz there entered into it a man who was superior to all of them in ability, and over whom Bismarck could not hope to have any influence.

Bismarck's distrust, which amounted almost to hatred, depended, however, on his fear that the new policy would bring about the ruin of Prussia.

He took the extreme Particularist view; he had no interest in Germany outside Prussia; Wuertemberg and Bavaria were to him foreign States.