Religion Essential to Society--Paramountcy of the Spiritual--Criticism of Christianity; Catholicism; Protestantism--Christ's Teaching: its Truths and Imperfections--The Doctrines of the New Faith: God; Progress; Immortality--The Criteria of Truth: the Conscience; Tradition--Humanity--The Need of Unity; Authority; Church and State; the New Church 222-248 CHAPTER XIV DUTY Morality Depends on an Ideal--Criticism of the Theory of Rights and Utilitarianism--Happiness not the End of Life--Life is a Mission--Work for the Sake of Duty--Thought Useless without Action--Power of the Principle of Duty--Duties to Self; Family; Country 249-266 CHAPTER XV THE STATE The Moral Law and the State--Duties of the State: Liberty, Association, Education--Sovereignty is in God--Democracy--The Ideal Government--The Republic--The Ideal State 267-282 CHAPTER XVI SOCIAL THEORIES Importance of Social Questions--Their Moral Basis-- Attack on Socialism--Contrast between Mazzini's and its Theories and Work--Social Programme--Cooperation 283-295 CHAPTER XVII NATIONALITY Country and Humanity--The Marks of Nationality: the Will of the People; the Sense of National Mission-- Patriotism--International Solidarity--Ethics of Foreign Policy; Non-Intervention; War; the Special Missions of each Country--The Future of Europe--The Slavs--The United States of Europe--Italy's International Function 296-311 CHAPTER XVIII LITERARY CRITICISM The Function of the Critic--The Function of the Poet--Art must avoid 'Art for the sake of Art' and Realism--It must be Human, Social, Didactic--Poetry of Modern Life--The Historical Drama--Music--'Objective' and 'Subjective' Poets--Dante--Shakespeare--Goethe-- Byron 312-328 CHAPTER XIX THE MAN Poetic Temperament--Defects as a Thinker--Greatness as a Moral Teacher--Strength and Weakness as a Politician--The Man 329-341 APPENDIX A Some Unpublished (in one case privately published) Letters and Papers, written by Mazzini 343-367 APPENDIX B Bibliography of Mazzini's Writings 367-373 INDEX 374 "Where there is no vision, the people perish." Chapter I The Home at Genoa 1805-1831. AETAT 0-25 Boyhood and Youth--University Life--Literary Studies--Classicism and Romanticism--Joins the Carbonari--Arrest and Exile.