d we--O readers, do
not at least you and I thank God to have now done with it!--

Of the Peace-Treaties at Hubertsburg, Paris and other places, it is
not necessary that we say almost anything. They are to be found in
innumerable Books, dreary to the mind; and of the 158 Articles to be
counted there, not one could be interesting at present. The substance of
the whole lies now in Three Points, not mentioned or contemplated at
all in those Documents, though repeatedly alluded to and intimated by us
here.

The issue, as between Austria and Prussia, strives to be, in all points,
simply AS-YOU-WERE; and, in all outward or tangible points, strictly
is so. After such a tornado of strife as the civilized world had not
witnessed since the Thirty-Years War. Tornado springing doubtless from
the regions called Infernal; and darkening the upper world from south to
north, and from east to west for Seven Years long;--issuing in general
AS-YOU-WERE! Yes truly, the tornado was Infernal; but Heaven too had
silently its purposes in it. Nor is the mere expenditure of men's
diabolic rages, in mutual clash as of opposite electricities, with
reduction to equipoise, and restoration of zero and repose again after
seven years, the one or the principal result arrived at. Inarticulately,
little dreamt of at the time by any by-stander, the results, on survey
from this distance, are visible as Threefold. Let us name them one other
time:--

1. There is no taking of Silesia from this man; no clipping of him down
to the orthodox old limits; he and his Country have palpably outgrown
these. Austria gives up the Problem: "We have lost Silesia!" Yes; and,
what you hardly yet know,--and what, I perceive, Friedrich himself still
less knows,--Teutschland has found Prussia. Prussia, it seems, cannot be
conquered by the whole world trying to do it; Prussia has gone through
its Fire-Baptism, to the satisfaction of gods and men; and is a Nation
henceforth. In and of poor dislocated Teutschland, there is one of the
Great Powers of the World henceforth; an actual Nation. And a Nation
not grounding itself on extinct Traditions, Wiggeries, Papistries,
Immaculate Conceptions; no, but on living Facts,--Facts of Arithmetic,
Geometry, Gravitation, Martin Luther's Reformation, and what it really
can believe in:--to the infinite advantage of said Nation and of poor
Teutschland henceforth. To be a Nation; and to believe as you are
convinced, instead of pretending to belie