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Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: 1849-1872.
Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi 18491872 Author:Giuseppe Garibaldi Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER X. EXILE. If that kick to the fallen had been given by a base or weak nation, one could have borne it. But from a representative of England, the un... more »iversal haven of refuge, it cut me to the heart. Forced to leave—even though, to do so, I had been obliged to throw myself into the sea—I resolved, under the advice of some friends, to cross the strait and seek refuge in Africa, with Signor G. B. Carpeneto, Sardinian consul at Tangier. This gentleman received and entertained me in his house for six months, with my two companions, Leggiero and Coccelli. At Modigliana I had found a beneficent priest; at Tangier I met with a consul in the royal service, who was a generous and honest man: to both I owe the deepest gratitude. These facts prove the justice of the old proverb, " The cowl does not make the monk;" and show that the exclusiveness professed by some people is a mistake, while it is very difficult to find perfection in the human family. Let us, then, strive after personal goodness for ourselves—inculcate, as far as possible, on the multitudes, the maxims of justice and truth, and fightto the death against ecclesiasticism and tyranny in any form, since they are the representatives of falsehood ;ind evil; but let us be indulgent towards our yet uncivilized species, which, among other titles of merit, has that of always producing one-half of itself, in the shape of emperors, kings, police-agents of every description, and priests—who seem cut out on purpose, with all the choicest attributes of executioners—to promote the glory and well-being of the others. At Tangier, with my generous host Carpeneto, I lived a quiet and happy life, as far as the life of an Italian exile, far from his country and his dear ones, can be so. At least twice in the week we used to go shoot...« less