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On him who, in his old age, sustained two attempts upon his life by the advocates of the rising tide of socialism; on his son Frederick III, whose three months' reign was overshadowed by mortal disease; and finally on his grandson, William II, the self-willed and overweening monarch and wrecker of his own empire - on these fell, in varying degrees, the full weight of the responsibilities consequent to these dire pronouncements.
(58:3)
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