Note 22 — THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS.
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A living poet of Italy, who will be placed by his prose among the great names of his country's literature, in a remarkable ode which he has thrown on the urn of Napoleon invites posterity to judge whether his career of battle was True Glory.
"Fu vera gloria? Ai posteri L'ardua sentenza."—Manzoni, Il Cinque Maggio.
When men learn to appreciate moral grandeur, the easy sentence will be rendered.