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At the Italian front, behind the war zone
"What Italy needs is security, sufficient to develop to the full her economic resources and her national individuality; and that she intends to obtain. She is resolved to be independent of external patronage, protection and supervision of any kind, and to enjoy all the rights, privileges, ambitions, which belong to the greater nations of the earth. She believes herself capable of excelling, not merely in art, science, letters, philosophy, laws, but in production, manufacturing, commerce, the exploitation of waste and backward lands. She is not content that her people, so intelligent, so industrious, so capable, should be packed off year by year in shoals to form the ill-paid labor helots of wealthier communities; she prefers that they should be kept at home to develop the riches and intensified vitality of their own land. She has watched the rise of Germany from poverty and weakness to strength and industrial magnificence; and she believes that the Latin capacity for organization, invention, scientific adaptation and enterprise, is not inferior to the Teutonic. She thinks she can do many of the things that Germany has done, and some things which Germany will never do; and she means to try. It is for the great free nations, with which she is now associated, to survey her effort with sympathetic eyes, and extend to it all the aid and encouragement in their power."
SUPPLEMENTARY READING
| ITALY IN THE WAR. | By Sidney J. M. Low |
| ITALY AT WAR. | By H. Vivian |
| EUROPE'S FATEFUL HOUR. | By G. Ferrero |
| THE BOOK OF ITALY. | Edited by Raffaelo Piccoli |
| A book of story, essay, verse and picture, interpreting the spirit of Italy. | |
*** Information concerning the above books may be had on application to the Editor of The Mentor.
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