. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... y Garibaldi GARIBALDI PRIESTS look backward, not forward. They think that there wer&once men better and wiser than those who now live, thereforepriests distrust the living and insist that we shall be governed by thedead. I believe this is an error, and hence I set myself against thechurch and insist that men shall have the right to work out their livesin their own way, always allowing to others the right to work outtheir lives in their own way, too. GARIBALDI in his Autobiography-. GREAT REFORMERS HE writer who tells the simplefacts in the
. Little journeys to the homes of great reformers ... y Garibaldi GARIBALDI PRIESTS look backward, not forward. They think that there wer&once men better and wiser than those who now live, thereforepriests distrust the living and insist that we shall be governed by thedead. I believe this is an error, and hence I set myself against thechurch and insist that men shall have the right to work out their livesin their own way, always allowing to others the right to work outtheir lives in their own way, too. GARIBALDI in his Autobiography-. GREAT REFORMERS HE writer who tells the simplefacts in the life of Garibaldilays himself open to the Sfr^ charge of evolving melodrama,wild and personal friendsand admirers always referredto him in such words as these:patriot, savior, father—noble,y.^^a. generous, pure-hearted, un-^g^Of selfish, devoted,philanthropic. <^ They transferred the infal- libility of Pope Pius IX. to his enemy, Pope was not much given to rhetorical lyddite,so when the name of Garibaldi was mentioned hesimply stopped his ears and hissed. He acknowledgedthat in all the bright lexicon of words there was not asymbol strong enough to express his contempt forJoseph Garibaldi. The actual fact was that Pio Nono, for whom Gari-baldi named his favorite donkey, had very much incommon w^ith Garibaldi jtHad they met as strangerson sea or plain, they would have delighted in eachothers society. They were both kind, courteous, con-siderate, highly intelligent men. They were lovers ofthe
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