text: _') Why think particularly of the King of Prussia a man whom with the same breath that you exalt him you put under three subjects [20] and take at the same time his army into your own hands to keep him from doing harm? I pray your Excellency to observe that while my proposal leaves us free hands for any possible future improvement your two plans will offend all parties: your first plan to make Austria swallow up Germany will offend all Europe and Germany to boot; your second plan to divide Germany between Austria and Prussia will excite the opposition not only of Russia England and Sweden but of all those North Germans who are not prepared to receive as a _boon the Prussian system with cell its machinery of boards and councils of auscultants and assessors and its hereditary incapacity to understand that old maxim of political philosophy_--GOVERNA MEGLIO CHI MEN GOVERNA--He governs best who governs least