... its aims, which were maintain the peace of Europe and solving the problems by discussing and without war, unless the latter was a necessary and unavoidable. The Metternich System was an enlightened one if it was a new system which is better than the ones in before. Before find out could the Congress System maintain the peace of Europe or not, it is essential to know that the powers had different definition of the word "peace". In the eyes of British statements, it means maintaining the balance of power and stick on the Vienna Settlement. However, the Russian, Prussian and Austrian statements did not share the same idea. They thought "peace" was no revolutions, for they thought the revolutions had an immediate danger threatens other countries, especially the multi-racial ones, such as themselves. In this essay, the meaning of "peace" is quite similar to the British one, but not the Austrian, ...

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