In Ludwig there has been born an enlightened ruler capable of true leadership in the spirit of the Germany of old and better times. Bismarck, with his Prussian aims for the unification of Germany is ‘with appalling frivolity playing with the destiny of the noblest and greatest nation on earth’. The destiny of Germany is to concern itself only with its own lofty development, for ‘the German feels no thirst for conquest, and the lust to dominate foreign peoples is unGerman’
