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Excerpt from New Chapters of Bismarck's Autobiography As I have hitherto received no official communication from any quarter con cerning this matter, I find myself obliged, in the first place, to apply to you in confidence, only to learn what is perhaps already decided, and also to declare that although I am fundamentally in agree ment with the policy of initiating my eldest son in the problems of the higher administration, ri am decidedly against his beginning with the Foreign Office. For considering the importance of the task which the Prince will be set, I regard it as a matter of course that he should before all things be acquainted with the internal conditions of his own country, and feel that he knows them intimately, before he, with his already quick and over-hasty judgment, occupies himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.