Don’t think that you are doing the king’s good by writing a book to the king about how beautiful it is that the king loves the people. This is absolutely wrong. The relationship between a king and a people should be a natural one, like that between a father and a child. A child is born with a father, rather than a child using his own reason to choose among all the men, resolutely casting a sacred vote, and electing the person who is most suitable to be his father. The child raised in this way is absolutely Raised in no way. The most advantageous thing to do for a child is that he is born with a father. He thinks that the father is a matter of course. This person is his father. It cannot be anyone else outside who is his father. He never doubts that he may change the family so that such a child can grow best. Such a child will be truly unlucky if his own family is replaced every three days. The French were unlucky because they kept changing their Monarch-Fathers; and the Prussians, than...