The Secret Societies of the European Revolution, 1776-1876, Volume 2Tinsley Bros., 1876 - Europe |
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Page 145 - Young Italy is a brotherhood of Italians who believe in a law of Progress and Duty, and are convinced that Italy is destined to become one nation— convinced also that she possesses sufficient strength within herself to become one, and that the...
Page 165 - I came to my better self alone, without aid from others, through the help of a religious conception which I verified by history. From the idea of God I descended to the conception of progress ; from the conception of progress to a true conception of life ; to faith in a mission and its logical consequence — duty the supreme rule of life ; and having reached that faith, I swore to myself that nothing in this world should again make me doubt or forsake it.
Page 164 - Italy, exhausted by two epochs of civilisation, were condemned by Providence henceforth to remain subject to younger and more vigorous nations, without a name or a mission of her own — whence had I derived the right of judging the future, and urging hundreds, thousands of men to the sacrifice of themselves and of all that they held most dear ? " I will not dwell upon the effect of these doubts upon my spirit.
Page 163 - ... when sustained by my mother's smile : as full of fervid hope, for others at least, if not for myself. But during those fatal months there darkened around me such a hurricane of sorrow, disillusion, and deception, as to bring before my eyes, in all its ghastly nakedness, a foreshadowing of the old age of my soul, solitary in a desert world, wherein no comfort in the struggle was vouchsafed to me.
Page 146 - The means by which Young Italy proposes to reach its aim are — education and insurrection, to be adopted simultaneously, and made to harmonize with each other. Education must ever be directed to teach by example, word, and pen, the necessity of insurrection. Insurrection, whenever it can be realised, must be so conducted as to render it a means of national education.
Page 277 - Ireland from the yoke of England, and for the establishment of a free and independent Government on the Irish soil; that I will implicitly obey the commands of my superior officers in the Fenian Brotherhood ; that I will faithfully discharge...
Page 147 - In the name of God and of Italy — In the name of all the martyrs of the holy Italian cause who have fallen beneath foreign and domestic tyranny — By the duties which bind me to the land wherein God has placed me, and to the brothers whom God has given me ; By the love — innate in all men — I bear to the country that gave my mother birth, and will be the home of my children ; By the hatred — innate in all men — I bear to evil, injustice...
Page 164 - I saw rising around me upon every side ; the failure of faith in those who had solemnly bound themselves with me to pursue unshaken the path we had known at the outset to be choked with sorrows ; the distrust I detected in those most dear to me as to the motives and intentions which sustained and urged me onward in the evidently unequal struggle.
Page 277 - Fenian Brotherhood is a distinct and independent organisation. It is composed, in the first place, of citizens of the United States of America, of Irish birth and lineage ; and, in the second place, of Irishmen, and of friends of Ireland, living elsewhere on the American Continent, and in the provinces of the British Empire wherever situated.
Page 164 - Chambery rose up before me like the phantoms of a crime and its unavailing remorse. I could not recall them to life. How many mothers had I caused to weep ! How many more must learn to weep should I persist in the attempt to arouse the youth of Italy to noble action, to awaken in them the yearning for a common country ! And if that country were indeed an illusion...