Carlyle, whom few satisfied, said he "found in him a man of clear intelligence and noble virtues. True as steel, the word, the thought of him pure and limpid as water." It may be by experience that a nation is governed, but it is by rightness alone that it is kept noble. It was to promote this that Mazzini walked for forty years on the dreary highway between exile and the scaffold. It was from belief in his heroic and unfaltering integrity that men went out at his word, to encounter the dungeon, torture, and death, and that families led all their days alarmed lives, and gave up husbands and sons to enterprises in which they could only triumph by dying. No one save Byron has depicted the self-denial incidental to Mazzini's career, which involved the abnegation of all that makes life worth living to other men. "Such ties are not For those who are called to the high destinies Which purify corrupted commonwealths. We must forget all feeling save the _One_ We must resign all passions, save our purpose. We must behold no object, save our country. And only look on death as beautiful So that the sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore."* * "Marino Faliero." Mazzini left a name which has become one of the landmarks, or rather mindmarks, of public thought, and, though a bygone name, there is instruction and inspiration in it yet. CHAPTER XIX. GARIBALDI--THE SOLDIER OF LIBERTY [Illustration: Garibaldi]