The life of Mazzini

Carlyle said that Mazzini was "by nature a little lyrical poet." The implication was contemptuous, but it had a bottom of truth. Mazzini, indeed, save for his early aspirations...

Religion essential to society--Paramouncy of the spiritual--Criticism of Christianity; Catholicism; Protestantism--Christ's teaching: its truths and imperfections--The doctrines...

Early in 1837 Mazzini and the Ruffinis came to London. The determining cause was the inability of the latter to bear the privations of a life of hiding. They travelled by slow d...

During the raid Mazzini's health collapsed. The strain of work and anxiety might have broken down a stronger man; he had not touched his bed for a week, and fatigue and cold and...

While Mazzini was watching from England in discouragement, and the waves seemed to gain no painful inch, in Italy the main came flooding in. How far exactly the sudden tide of n...

It is painful to turn from Mazzini in England, the great-hearted friend, the prophetic thinker, the generous worker in the cause of man, to his political action in Italy. Had he...

Mazzini's remaining life is one of melancholy pathos. He could not rest, till Unity was accomplished. Aged and often very ill and suffering, longing for quiet and literature, he...

Morality depends on an Ideal--Criticism of the theory of Rights and Utilitarianism--Happiness not the end of life--Life is a mission--Work for the sake of Duty--Thought useless...

Joseph Mazzini was born in the Via Lomellina at Genoa on June 22, 1805. His father was a doctor of some repute and Professor of Anatomy at the University, a democrat in creed an...

The function of the critic--The function of the poet--Art must avoid 'art for the sake of art' and realism--It must be human, social, didactic--Poetry of modern life--The histor...

When Mazzini arrived at Lyons, he found an unhopeful plan in preparation for raiding Savoy. Some 2000 Italian refugees, many of them Piedmontese who had fled through Genoa ten y...

Country and humanity--The marks of nationality: the will of the people; the sense of national mission--Patriotism-- International solidarity--Ethics of foreign policy: non-inter...

In politics, as for the individual, the moral law, so Mazzini taught, must reign supreme. "The end of politics is to apply the moral law to the civil organisation of a country."...

Had he done this, he might have averted the catastrophe, which quenched the nation's hopes in swift disaster. In one pitched fight after another the Italians had won. But courag...

Mazzini stayed for a few weeks in a quiet hotel near his old quarters at Geneva, then moved to Lausanne, where he and a few more refugees, Saffi, his co-Triumvir, and Pisacane a...

The governor of the prison at Savona had allowed him to read the Bible, Byron, and Tacitus, innocently thinking that they contained no revolutionary material. Out of these and D...

In his ignorance of the facts, he charged it all to the monarchy. The nation had been sacrificed to the interests of a dynasty. Defeat and dishonour came of the equivocations, t...

Mazzini returned to England, weary and sad, but not discouraged, and convinced that success was only a question of opportunity and management. He recognised how strongly the tid...

Mazzini's faith in the republic came largely of his conviction that it was the only effective instrument for social legislation. He was sometimes charged with neglecting social...

Religion Essential to Society--Paramountcy of the Spiritual--Criticism of Christianity; Catholicism; Protestantism--Christ's Teaching: its Truths and Imperfections--The Doctrine...

Country and Humanity--The Marks of Nationality: the Will of the People; the Sense of National Mission-- Patriotism--International Solidarity--Ethics of Foreign Policy; Non-Inter...

Morality Depends on an Ideal--Criticism of the Theory of Rights and Utilitarianism--Happiness not the End of Life--Life is a Mission--Work for the Sake of Duty--Thought Useless...

The Function of the Critic--The Function of the Poet--Art must avoid 'Art for the sake of Art' and Realism--It must be Human, Social, Didactic--Poetry of Modern Life--The Histor...