{"id":80,"date":"2013-07-13T01:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=80"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:25:44","slug":"70-mazzini-cavour-garibaldi-vol-03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03\/70-mazzini-cavour-garibaldi-vol-03-the-harmony-of-virtue-volume-03","title":{"rendered":"-70_Mazzini Cavour Garibaldi.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\nTHREE<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nMazzini – Cavour – Garibaldi<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n        MAZZINI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n              <\/p>\n

\nT<\/font>he state of Italy now is the proof that my teaching was needed. Machiavellianism rose again in the policy of Cavour, and Italy,
\ngrasping too eagerly at the speedy fruit of her efforts, fell from the
\nclearness of the revelation that I gave her. Therefore she suffers. We must work
\nfor the fruit, but there must not be such attachment to the fruit that to hasten it the true means is sacrificed, for
\nthat leads eventually to the sacrifice of the true end.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCAVOUR<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe state of Italy is the proof of the soundness of my policy.
\nMazzini, you speak still as the ideologist, the man of notions.
\nThe statesman recognises ideals, but he has nothing to do with
\nnotions. He strikes always at his main objective and is willing
\nto sacrifice much in details.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nMAZZINI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nWhat you say is true, but the sacrifice has been not of details but
\nof the essential.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCAVOUR<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nItaly is one, Italy is free.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nGARIBALDI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe unity was my work. I did not use Machiavellianism or rely
\non statecraft and kingcraft. I did not buy liberty by mutilating
\nmy country. But I called to the soul of the nation and the soul of
\nthe nation awoke and shook itself free of the great tyrants and the
\npetty. It was on the heroism and kingliness of the Italian soul,
\nthe resurrection in Florence and Rome and Naples of the ancient
\nRoman, Etruscan and Sammite that Cavour should have relied,
\nnot on the false-hearted huckster of States and principalities,
\nLouis Napoleon.<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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\nMAZZINI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nItaly is one, Italy is free, but in the body, not in the soul. Garibaldi, you gave united Italy to a man, not to the nation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nGARIBALDI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nI gave it to the King and hero, Italy’s representative. I do not
\nyet think that I did ill. The nation said, "He stands for me",
\nand as a democrat I bowed to the voice of the nation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCAVOUR<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nIt was the best-inspired action of your life. If there are problems
\nunsolved, if there are parts of the body politic that are still ailing, that was
\nto be expected. Only the dreamer demands a rapid convalescence from a disease so long and wasting. We did the work
\nof the surgeon, that of the physician is being done quietly and
\nwithout ostentation.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nMAZZINI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nItaly has not fulfilled her mission; my heart is full of sorrow
\nwhen I look upon her. She whom I would have educated to lead
\nthe world, is only an inferior Power leaning for support upon the
\nselfish and unscrupulous Teuton. She who should have reorganised government and society into a fit mould for the ideas of an
\nage of emancipation, is a laggard lingering in the steps of the Gaul
\nand the Saxon. She who should have been the fountain of a new
\nEuropean culture, hardly figures among the leaders of humanity.
\nThe semi-Asiatic Muscovite is doing more for mankind than
\nthe heirs of the Roman.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCAVOUR<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nThe statesman must have patience and work quietly towards his
\ngoal, securing each step as he goes. When the economic ills of Italy have been
\nremoved and the Church no longer opposes progress, the ideal of Mazzini may be fulfilled. The brain and sword
\nof Italy may yet lead and as of old refashion Europe.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nMAZZINI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nIt is not the diplomatist and the servant of the moment who can<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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\n

\nbring about that great consummation, but the heroic soul and the
\nmighty brain that command Time and create opportunity. I
\nsought to cast Italy into a Roman mould. I knew that a third
\nrevelation had to be made to Europe and that Italy was the
\nchosen channel. So I was told when I went down from this world
\nof the ancients to be born again into humanity. "Twice has
\nItaly given a new civilisation to Europe, the third time she shall
\ngive it." The voice that speaks when we are sent does not lie.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCAVOUR<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nNo, but the fruit does not always come at once. There is sometimes a long probation, a slow agony of purification, and the
\nthing destined seems a dream that has come to nothing. We
\nhave to work knowing that the fruit will come, not impatient, not embittered and
\ndisappointed by its postponement. It is possible we shall be called again to bring about the consummation.
\nWe have helped Italy always; once more we shall help her.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nMAZZINI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nI know not, but the days grow long to me in the world of the
\nHappy. When the call comes, I pray that it may be to conquer,
\nnot by diplomacy but by truth and ardent courage, \u2014<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nGARIBALDI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nNot by bargaining but by the sword of the hero, \u2014<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nMAZZINI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nNot by kingcraft but by love for humanity and a noble wisdom.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCAVOUR<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nI shall be content, so that Italy conquers.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nGARIBALDI<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nWhen the sword that was struck out of her hand by the Abyssinian, is lifted again, I shall be there to lift it.<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

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