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Giuseppe
Mazzini
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Fraternization
of the Nations
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(Bern
1832)
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When
God sent the earth into infinite space, he called the man who animated
it: “Go! You are appointed to fame:
I
have created you according to my image; but you will not see me face to
face, before you fulfil and attain possession of your abilities […]; go,
I have opened a sublime life of progress for you; but you cannot
go through it alone; fraternize and exchange moral thoughts with
all creatures in which you see my image. The way is filled with obstacles:
but go! Victory is yours, because I have given you the power of creating
and uniting [...]." |
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"I have
created you according to MY IMAGE"
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Then
mankind began to search for a country, that could accomodate the philosophy
and hypothesis on a far larger scale.
This
country is Europe.
Europe
is the lever of the world. Europe is the country of liberty.
It is associated with the fate of the world and party to the mission of
progressive development which is the law of mankind. |
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"EUROPE
is the lever of the world"
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Four
thousand years have passed, since the first glimmer of culture in Greece
appeared from the rocks of the Caucasus. It was a pale, uncertain light
which trembled in the darkness. The spark kidnapped by Prometheus was so
weak that it seemed condemned to death. But the family of the Titans which
fought against the Asiatic learning, perpetuated itself. The European
origins which were propagated by the Hellenics, developed into homogeneous
proportions. Today it radiates over Europe; that glimmer became the sun
of a culture, and there is no Joshua, who could order it to stop. Since
mankind became active in a small province of Greece, each age of history,
each century shows the growth of the two principles on which our religion
is based.
Mankind
progresses. |
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"Mankind
PROGRESSES."
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Each
station of the progress was achieved by uniting; but on the other
hand no station of the progress was achieved, which would not have willing
done so having united the people to their advantage.
Today
the theory of unlimited progress and the unity of Europe – at first
the philosophy of few martyrs who were called utopists – have almost become
the people’s faith in France, there the disappointments and the events
are still not so recent as to take the initiative in European culture.
Since Christ set the base model for unity by revealing the principle
of equality to humans, since the typography has become a general bond
to all those who felt in themselves the requirement of social development,
a universal start for the performance of their individual efforts requires
a strong moral belief toward all material. Thus grew the tendency for unity,
the longing for the European fraternization obviously and inexorably.
The French revolution raised these emotions to the law, to the political
principle [...]. |
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"French
revolution raised these emotions to the LAW."
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The
people fraternized first in the hate, then in love; and whilst the
princes who closed a federation of dishonour in defence against the league
of free thinkers, thus the people closed theirs.
The
motto was liberty; and when Paris wrote that word on his flag, and
by raising it, so that all Europeans saw it, the whole of Europe felt the
necessity to become part of it. All Europe pulsed with a new fervour, and
free men understood that they would have to shake hands in order to be
strong. The European nations came step by step to the meeting place
in order to write their names there [...]. |
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"The motto
was ..........................................................................
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was LIBERTY."
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And
mankind rises more and more by new visions, by accepting new people
on its way, overcoming more and more land in Europe and beginning
to infiltrate Asia.
It
will be beautiful to have a view on the end of the final day; today we
stand at the breach, are pressed by the necessity of time and events to
have the lance in the fist. We must fight, we must triumph, and we must
decide whether the culture perpetuated by the few is to stop, whether the
unity of the people is an illusion or the only means to victory. |
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