sympathy with the common mother country—and yet but a shred of their home-land remained theirs.
The circle of vision of the German-Austrian was wider than that of the rest of the Empire. His economic relations frequently embraced almost the whole of the composite Empire. Almost all really large enterprises were in his hands. He supplied most of the leading technical experts and officials. Moreover, he carried on the trade abroad, in so far as the Jews had not laid hands on that domain which had been his of old time. The German-Austrian recruit might perhaps enter a German regiment, but that regiment might be as likely to be stationed in Herzegovina as in Vienna or Galicia. The corps of officers continued to be German, the higher officials preponderantly so. Art and science were German. Leaving out the more recent artistic developments, which might simply be the production of a negro race, the possessor and diffuser of true artistic ideas was the German, and the German only. In music, architecture, sculpture and painting Vienna was the source which supplied the whole Dual Monarchy in an inexhaustible stream, with no appear¬ ance of ever drying up.
Finally, the whole burden of foreign policy was borne by Germans, although a few Hungarians may be included in the number.
Thus any attempt to maintain this Empire was in vain, since the essentials were absent.
In the Austrian Empire of races there was only one possible way of defeating the centrifugal tendencies of individual nations ; the State either must be governed from the centre and organized internally to that end— or it was inconceivable.
In occasional lucid intervals the Emperor perceived this, but it was soon forgotten, or shelved as being difficult to carry out.