Prussia was becoming more and more powerful and
smaller states, such as Wurttemberg, worried that they
would be swallowed up by Prussia in a unified Germany.
This was important as each individual state did not want to lose its individual culture in a
Indifference of the Masses
Most peasants had no access to
education so were unable to read or
write nationalist works.
This was important as it
restricted the growth of
nationalism as the peasants
could not be influenced by
nationalist writers such a
Schiller and Goethe.
However, urbanisation meant that more and more
people were moving to the cities and so nationalist
ideas began to spread by word on mouth and did
not rely on methods such as literary works.