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Chia Machiavellian mould. The Car- proinulgation of the mighty and heroio, used diplomacy, temporisbonari movement which was Italy's uplifting ideas which pervade his ing and shuffling with a force of Hrst attempt to live was permeated writingn and of which Young Italy which they were incapable and with it. Maszini lifted up the was the organ. But moral force can inlike them did not shrink from country from this low and ineffec- not be confirmed merely by ideas, it material srificos. He succeded tive level and gave it the only force can only be forgod and tempered in where they failed, not merely which can justify we hope of revi- the workshop of action. And because he was a great statesman, val, the force of the spirit within, it was the habit of action but bocause he had lenmt to cherish the strength to disregard immediate the habit of strength, daring the unity and freedom of Italy interests and surrounding circums- and initiative which Mazzini not se mere national interests but tances and carried away by the sought to recreate in the torpid as engrossing ideals. The passion pawion for an ideal, trusting oneself heart and sluggissh limba of Italy. grenter than a man's love for to the impetus and incrensing velo- And with it he sought to establish child and wife which he put in. city of the force it creates, to score the sublime Roman spirit of utter to those wpirations and the eme ideas of impossibility and improba- self-sacrifice and self-abnegation, tional fervour with which he inbility and to fling life. goods and contempt of difficulty and apparent vested his Liberal idenl of a tree happiness away on the cast of dice impossibility and iron insensibilty Church in a free State, measure the adrealy clogged against one by ad- to defeat. For his purpose the very spiritual gulf between himself and verse Fortune and unfavourable hopelessness of the enterprises he thc purely Machiavellian Carbonari. circumstance. The spiritual force set on foot was more favourable than It was this the within not only creates the future more possible CARRYS. And when force to nttempt greatly and to but creates the materinls for the others and sometimes his own cast all on the heart of a single future. It is not limited to the heart reproached him with fling die. He haul therefore the ins: existing materials either in their ing away Omany young and piration of a part of the Mourinun nature or in their quantity. It can promising lives into the bloody gospel and he used the force which transform bad material into good trench of his petty yet impossible Mazzini created. Without it he would material, insufficient means into ondenvours, the faith and wielom have boen helpless. It was not Cavour abundant means. It was a deep con- in him upheld himn in the fuce of who saved Italy, it wns the forces seiuusness of this groat truth that every discouragement. Because he of resurgent Italy working through gave Mazzini the strength to create had that superhuman strength, Cavour. History often inisrepremodern Italy. His eyes were als he was perroitted to uplift Italy. sents and it formerly representert ways fixed on the mind and heart | Hal it been God's porpose that the later purt of the Revolution of the nation, very little on the ex- Italy should become swiftly one of an entirely engineered by his state turnal or intornal circumstances of the greater European powers, he craft, but it is now recognised Italy. He was not a statesman but would have been permitted to free that more than once in the greathe had a more than statesmanlike her also. He would have done it cut matters Cavour plnnned one night. His plan of a sories of in a different way from Cavour's, away and the great Artificer of petty, local and necessarily abortive ---after a much looger lapse of nations planned in another. But Insurrections strikes the ordinary time, with a much more terrible Cavour had the greatest itt. practical man as the very negation and bloody expense of human life 1 of 4-statesman, to recognize of Canmon sense and political wis- but without purchasing Italy's that events were wiser than com. It socms almost as futile as freedom in the French market by hinself and throwing midu his the idea of some wild brains, if the bribe of Savoy and Nice and attachment to the sucoche of his indeed the idea be really cherished, with such a divine output of own schemes to see iind une the that by random assassinations the spiritual and inoral force as would
spiritual and moral forces would advantages of situation he had freedom of this country can be vin- have sustained his country for cen- not foreseen. This gift Mazzini, the dicited. There is, however, turies and fulfilled his grandioso
fanatic and doctrinairo, almost 1 radical ditforence. Mazzini knew dream of an Italy spiritually, entirely lacked. Still thu success well what he was about.. His eyes intellectually and politically lead- of Cavour prolonged in the Italian were fixed on the heart of the nation ing Europe.
character and political action solne and as the physician of the Italian The work was given to Cavour of the lower qualities of the longTaalady his business was not with precisely because he was a lower enslaved nation and is responsible the ultimate and perfect rosult but man. Mazzini saw in him the re- for the reverses, retardation and with the creation of condi- vival of Machiavellianism and the deep-seated mulmies which keep
frustration of his own moral work back Italy from the fulfillment of enre and rosurgence. He He was wrong, but not wholly
her greatness. Mazzini, with his knew tial success was impossible wrong. The temper and methods
superior diagnosis of the national without the creation of a force that of Cavour were predominatingly
disease and his wurgeous pitinen could not be commanded for some Machiavellian. Ho resumed that es, would have probud , 11tirne to come. But he also know element in Italian character and
tensified and prolonged the guy, that even that force could not suc- gave it a triumphant expression.
but made & radical care, ceed without a great spiritual And Like the Carbonati he weighod The circumstances in India forbid moral strength behind its action and forces, gave a high place to copcroto the use of the same means is the informing its aspirations. It was material interests, atrompted great Italians the. But the general this strength he sought to create. bat not impossible objects and by paychological laws which govern The spiritual force be created by the means which were bold but not nations in their rise. A s
