Some politely and vainly ask the Holy Father to reform abuses: this is the moderate party.

Others propose to themselves a thorough reform of the government: they are called radicals, revolutionists, or Mazzinists--rather an injurious term.

This latter category is not precisely nice as to the measures to be resorted to.

It holds, with the Society of Jesus, that the end justifies the means.

It says, if Europe leaves it _tete-a-tete_ with the Pope, it will begin by cutting his throat; and if foreign potentates oppose such criminal violence, it will fling bombs under their carriages.
The moderate party expresses itself plainly, the Mazzinists noisily.
Europe must be very stupid, not to understand the one; very deaf, not to hear the other.
What then happens?
All the States which desire peace, public order, and civilization, entreat the Pope to correct some abuse or other.