The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
ATTRIBUTION:
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872), Italian nationalist leader. Faith and the Future, sct. 1 (1835), trans. in Essays by Joseph Mazzini, ed. Bolton King (1894).
