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Excerpt from European Republicans Recollections of Mazzini and His Friends
It may be that my memoir may be deemed partial. But how shall the impartial be fairly appreciative 2 Who shall speak with sufficient authority of a man, unless it be one loving him and loved, so qualified to read his soul, so abled to judge the man and his acts from intimate knowledge of his principles and character. I profess not to be impartial, but in all I would be true: hiding nothing out of fear of belittling my hero, saying however admiringly only what I know caring most to give a faithful presentment of one indeed dearer to me than a brother, whose superior in all that constitutes an accomplished and heroic manhood I do not find upon the scroll of History. I desire also to present to Englishmen and Americans a clearer idea than I have found elsewhere Of the aim and purpose of his life, the Republicanism, as understood and preached by him, which, I believe, has yet to regenerate the world.
I add such brief notices as I have had opportunity to collect (much from personal knowledge) of the men who were nearest to Mazzini in his aims and in his work.
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