Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . , amidst bloominggardens, and where the soil demands hard labour ; dwell amongst the well-to-do popula-tion of wine-growers, or where the fever-stricken peasant with all his pallid family cannotearn enough by hard year-long toil, to replace his squalid rags by new garments ; every-where you find one thing which has remained the inalienable heritage of this poor peoplethrough all the weary centuries,—-grace. Grace rules the motions of his limbs, grace giveshim courtesy, a courtesy of the heart, a fine sense to distinguish the true from the false, anappreciati
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . , amidst bloominggardens, and where the soil demands hard labour ; dwell amongst the well-to-do popula-tion of wine-growers, or where the fever-stricken peasant with all his pallid family cannotearn enough by hard year-long toil, to replace his squalid rags by new garments ; every-where you find one thing which has remained the inalienable heritage of this poor peoplethrough all the weary centuries,—-grace. Grace rules the motions of his limbs, grace giveshim courtesy, a courtesy of the heart, a fine sense to distinguish the true from the false, anappreciation of the good and the beautiful, in such rich measure as might make some otherpeoples—among whom grace has been choked and smothered by coal-dust and steam—envious. To be sure, it is true that with this grace alone,—a grace which reveals itself tothe superficial observer merely in music, dance, and song,—it is true, I say, that with thisgrace alone you will never make a Mont Cenis tunnel, a St. Gothard railway, or a Suez. PORTA CAPUANA, NAPLES. ANCIENT AND MODERN CAMPANIANS. 367
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