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you are found again among the devastation of the Country Roman.
As I reflected on what I had seen, an idea that worries was forced
on me in a geometric shape. It seemed to me that the activity and
the prosperity of the subjects of the Pope both in exact proportion to the
plaza of the distance that separated them from Rome: in the other words,
what the shade of the monuments of the eternal city was harmful to the
the crop of the country. It says Rabelais the shade of convents it is
fertile; but he speaks to another sense.
I submitted my doubts to a venerable cleric to that it hastened
undeceive me. "The country is not uncultivated", he said; "or if it is
then, the guilt is with the subjects of the Pope. These people are
indolent from nature, even if 21,415 monks are always preaching
the activity and industry to them!"
I CAPITULATE IV.
THE SUBJECTS OF THE TEMPORAL POWER.
The 14 of May, 1856, the de of M. Rayneval, then French ambassador to
Rome, a warm friend to the cardinals and accordingly a bitter enemy to
their subjects, so it described the Italian people:--
"A nation uniforms deeply among them, animated from
ardent ambition, not possessing none of the qualities that
constitutes the greatness and the power of others, deprived of
energy, wanting equally in military spirit and in the spirit
of the association and respect to neither the law neither social
distinctions."
De of M. Rayneval will be canonized one hundred years from now (if the present
system continues) to have so nobly defenses oppressed him.
It won't be foreign to my purpose to try my his/her own hand to this
portrait; for the Italian subjects of the Pope it is as the rest, and
there is but a nation in the Italian peninsula. The difference of
climate, foreigners' neighborhood, the traces of invasions you/he/she can have
changed the type, it altered the accent, and it slightly varied the
language; he/she anchors Italians I am everywhere the same and the middle one
class--every people's _elite_--you think and you likewise speak from Turin
to Naples. Beautiful, strong, and healthy, when the negligence of