sought to force him to
deny the truths revealed to him by God. But his pristine energy was
worn down by long suffering and sorrow; the monkish menace crushed
him. He strove to submit. He raised his hand, he too, to declare
the immobility of the earth. But as he raised his hand, he raised
his weary eyes to that heaven they had searched throughout long
nights to read thereon one line of the universal law; they
encountered a ray of that sun which he so well knew motionless amid
the moving spheres. Remorse entered his heart: an involuntary cry
burst from the believer's soul: _Eppur si muove!_ and yet it moves.

"Three centuries have passed away.
Inquisitors,--inquisition,--absurd theses imposed by force,--all
these have disappeared. Naught remains but the well-established
movement of the earth, and the sublime cry of Galileo floating
above the ages.

"Child of Humanity, raise thy brow to the sun of God, and read upon
the heavens: _It moves._ Faith and action! The future is ours."

"Poetry," added Mazzini, "will teach the young the nobleness of
sacrifice, of constancy, and silence; of feeling one's self alone
without despairing, in an existence of suffering unknown or
misunderstood; in long years of bitterness, wounds, and delusion,
endured without murmur or lament; it will teach them to have faith in
things to come, and to labor unceasingly to hasten their coming, even
though without hope of living to witness their triumph;" and his final
word in this great invocation to the new potencies of the opening future
is an exhortation to believe in all greatness and goodness. "Faith," he
said, "which is intellect, energy, and love, will put an end to the
discords existing in a society which has neither church nor leaders;
which invokes a new world, but forgets to ask its secret, its Word, from
God." In universal education must lie the first national aid to the
development of Italy. "_L'anima del gran mondo e l'allegria._"

As Florence is pre-eminently the city of culture, so is Milan of
activities. Her keynote is _modernite_. The visitor is at once impressed
by her energy, her enterprise, and her commercial prosperity. Milan has
the best municipal facilities and conveniences in all Italy. The
electric lighting of streets, public buildings, and residences, the
street transit, the arrangement and conduct of shops and all industrial
matters, are in su