ABSTRACT
A s WEBER gradually recovered from his prolonged ordeal, he was in many ways a changed man. Earlier, by fusing to gether the disparate spirits of liberal and Jacobin national ism, he had hoped to find a new source of political vitality to replace the decadent order of Prussian feudalism. An aggressive course of global Realpolitik could, he believed, inspire in the plebs the same sense of political responsibility that had earlier animated the Junkers. This belief disappears from Webers political writing after 1900.
