_Storia delle Rivoluzioni d' Italia_, iii.

239.
Still the ground beneath this specious fabric of diplomacy rung hollow.
The tyrannies represented a transient political necessity.

They were not the product of progressive social growth, satisfying and regulating organic functions of the nation.

Far from being the final outcome of a slow, deliberate accretion in the states they had absorbed, we see in them the climax of conflicting humors, the splendid cancers and imposthumes of a desperate disease.

That solid basis of national morality which grounds the monarch firm upon the sympathies and interests of the people whom he seems to lead, but whom he in reality expresses, failed them.