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Courts and Criminals

CHAPTER XI
15/53

All honor to him! Garibaldi was of just such stuff, only he suffered in a better cause.

In Naples the young folks are out all day in the sun.

Here they are indoors all the year round.

For the consequences of this change see Dr.Peccorini's article in the 'Forum' for January, 1911, on the tuberculosis that soon develops among Italians who abroad were accustomed to live in the country but here are forced to exist in tenements.
Now, for historic reasons, these south Italians hate and distrust all governmental control and despise any appeal to the ordinary tribunals of justice to assert a right or to remedy a wrong.

It has been justly said by a celebrated Italian writer that, in effect, there is some instinct for civil war in the heart of every Italian.


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