German economic prosperity made radical reform seem less urgent

Evidence

Bismarck, as we know, was successful, but not on the basis of sheer energy or diplomatic acumen. The economic prosperity, between 1850 and 1871, of an industrializing Germany had made radical (that is liberal) reform less urgent, while the ubiquitous international machinations and the persistent hostility of Napoleon III to German unity underscored the logic of nationalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 328