The Failure of Evolution in 1848

In retrospect looking at it on other zophania there I think the idea that it was a failure became important for certain national historiographies. For some conservatives like Bismarck you know it's a tremendous success for him and he spends the rest of his life explaining to people that 1848 made him the man he was. There are reactionaries but they're very small in number because most people are smart enough to see that you cannot unmake this event so everybody is changed by it. But even the old powers that are involved in them emerge from the revolution changed by it - there is no road back into pre-revolutionary situation.