Capitolo 7
brutalized,--and there anybody but malcontents he/she will remain.
The malcontentses are not the whole same complexion. Some kindly and
vainly asks Saint to reform the abuses to his/her/their Father: this is the moderate
party. Others propose to them a complete reform of the
government: them states called radicals, revolutionary or
Mazzinists--rather a harmful term. This second category is not
precisely beautiful as to the measures to apply to. It contains, with
the Society of Jesus, that the end justifies the means. It says, if
Europe leaves him/it _tete-a-tete_ with the Pope, it will start to cut
his/her throat; and if foreign potentates oppose such criminal violence,
he/she wants bombs of throwing under their carriages.
The moderate party is clearly expressed, the Mazzinists noisily.
Europe has to be a lot of fool not to understand that,; very deaf, not
to feel the other.
Does it happen thing then?
The whole States that the peace of desire, public order and the civilization,
you implore the Pope to correct some abuse or other. "Has pity", them
says, "if not on Your subjects, at least on Your neighbours, and
safe _us_ from the conflagration!"
As often as this intervention it is renewed, the Pope sends for his
Minister of State. The Minister of is said it is a Cardinal who
you reign on his/her Father Saint in temporal matters, also as the Saint
Father reigns on one hundred and thirty nine millionses of Catholics in
spiritual matters. The Pope confides to the Cardinal Minister the
source of his/her embarrassment, and he/she asks to him that that will be done.
The Cardinal that is the minister of everything in the State the replicas,
without the hesitation of a moment, to the old sovereign:--
"In the first place, they are not abuses: in the next place,
if there was some, we don't have to touch them. To reform
anything is to make a concession to the malcontents. To give
way, is to try that we am afraid. To admit fear, is to
you double the strength of the enemy to open the gates to,
revolution, and to bring the road to Gaeta, where the