Without this King, all its valors, disciplines, resources of war, would have availed Prussia little.

No wonder Prussia has still a loyalty to its great Friedrich, to its Hohenzollern Sovereigns generally.

Without these Hohenzollerns, Prussia had been, what we long ago saw it, the unluckiest of German Provinces; and could never have had the pretension to exist as a Nation at all.

Without this particular Hohenzollern, it had been trampled out again, after apparently succeeding.

To have achieved a Friedrich the Second for King over it, was Prussia's grand merit.
An accidental merit, thinks the reader?
No, reader, you may believe me, it is by no means altogether such.