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spirit OF combination, little and narrow Macchi-
arelliansn. jealousy. envy. tho thirst for ven-
Reance. and the genius of exploitation, hayo
grown like morbid plants in this temperament
which has remained subjected to the double
empire OF the stranger and the paternal despot.
Nevertheless. upon tho heights. tho antique
life. strongly tempered, flung forth its fires.
Tho ancient tradition Of individual genius
passed from hand to hand like sacred torch.
III quasi cto'sores puai ianpada tradttnt"
On the threshold Of tho RisorgUnento and up
to the moment OF absolute dechdence. plei-
ad OF illustrious men transmitted through
generations the recollection OF power and
OF light. Gioberti. Manzoni. Cesare Babo.
Cavour.. Rosmini Gino. Capponi. and more
recently Minghetti carried high and far the
Italian name and prestige. But politics extin-
gushed this last flame
When the bourgeoisle recklessly throw itself
into the furnace. when all national energies
were tending toward the political ideal which
was considered the last ofrort and the form OF
all grandeur In the nation. the new regime
arrived and marked it's absolute decadence.
Gregorovus foresaw this abasement. First
OF nll the lovers OF contemporaneous Italy. he
uttered cry OF alarm. His high culture
was alarmed; his love was in mourning.
Tho moment that Piedmont crossed the an
Quirinal his enthusiasm and his delight in
working sank like the level OF a half dried
UP river. Did he foresee the miseres and tho
national ruin OF to-dav2 Did he foroseo that
this political resurrection like all domi-
nations OF Its kind. would burn UP the essence
OF the Italian intellect and give 1t over to sort
OF moral bankruptcy
AS we know. 1t is q law OF history that polit-
ical greatnoss. living and even OF good alloy,
Is the forcrunner OF deeadence. In his cole
brated work. Montesquieu has written tho his.
tory OF this phenomenon. great philosopher
OF contemporaneous Germany. Nietzsche. says
In his " GG,ze,,diuDernnv:"
Let no one form any Illusion in regard TO
this 1t is evident that German culture Is
declining. NJ one can spend more than no
Just as with nations When people are lavish
IN expenses for power. for far.renchine poll
lations. for param entarism and military in-
terests: when they have s1uandered upon
this side the Guantum Of rcason Of will mower
ture an, the state-lef no mistake be mado
about it-are antagonists.
state culture ia IL purely modern iden.
One lives at tho expense @ OF the other: All the
a S wen PSe
81 culture has often been mpoltc.
"The CREATION OF the German empire marked
its exhaustion"
Italy. less energetic and less laborious than
Germany. has received the sting OF the civil
izinG Ia moro profoundly. The last rays OF
her genius are extinguisheG. To-day whsr-
ever We look. according to the painful pre-
sentiment OF her fervent admircr. Gregoro-
vius. bankruptcy holds up its grnnin:y skull.
The pessimism OF minds, moral and in
tellectual disease. financial and economl-
col ruin, military and naval burdens. the
absence OF all personal and Independent
production. the silence OF NIL high litera-
ture. scientific Rroveling. tho resurrection OF
the antique landed estates, and tho wasting
away OF tn. monarchy. which is only the fnta
result OF an improvised and exterior civillza-
tion. such are tho crclos OF this new In
ierno Of Dante. who In his day spoke Of italy
as tho asylum OF grief" whose patriotic moan
seems to-day to oppress all manly bosoms
Gregorovius might shade his noble brow In
the presence OF such ruin. Before tho arrival
of this decadence. he left Rome. God. In whom
he had not the happiness to believe, took him
away at n timc when hope still shone over his
enchanted land. ISNoMINATo.