text: " This most characteristic passage expresses only Stein's feeling that the French had been allowed to escape so cheaply by the generosity of the Allies at the peace of Paris; but he had much more substantial grievances to vex him nearer home; and next to the feeble machinery of the diet at Frankfort that which hurt him most was the political reaction at Berlin that commenced immediately after the peace and threatened to undo that great social work which he had so boldly begun in 1808