there all over the town to see if they could get sight of
one of these military parades and exhibitions. I never went to one. It
struck me then as a matter of pain and horror, that it should be necessary
that one portion of mankind should be set aside to have for their
profession the business of destroying others.' "

Another side of Garibaldi was less congenial. A great lady wrote to Mr.
Gladstone of a conversation with him. "I talked to Garibaldi with regret
that Renan was so much read in Italy. He said '_Perche?_' and showed that
he did not dislike it, and that he has also in leaving Rome left very much
else. I know that woman's words are useless: the more men disbelieve, the
more they think it well that women should be 'superstitious.' You are not
likely to have _arguments_ with him, but I would give much that he should
take away with him some few words that would bring home to him the fact
that the statesman he cares for most would think life a miserable thing
without faith in God our Saviour." To another correspondent on this point
Mr. Gladstone wrote:--

The honour paid him was I think his due as a most singularly
simple, disinterested, and heroic character, who had achieved
great things for Italy, for liberty well-understood, and even for
mankind. His insurrection we knew and lamented, and treated as
exceptional. No Mazzinian leanings of his were known. I read the
speech at the luncheon with surprise and concern.(81) As to his
attenuated belief, I view it with the deepest sorrow and concern,
I need not repeat an opinion, always painful to me to pronounce,
as to the principal causes to which it is referable, and as to the
chief seat of the responsibility for it. As to his Goddess Reason,
I understand by it simply an adoption of what are called on the
continent the principles of the French Revolution. These we
neither want nor warmly relish in England, but they are different
from its excesses, and the words will bear an innocent and even in
some respects a beneficial meaning.

The diary records:--

_April 12._--To Chiswick and met Garibaldi. We were quite satisfied
with him. He did me much more than justice. 14.--Went by a
desperate push to see Garibaldi welcomed at the opera. It was
good, but not like the _people_. 17.--At Stafford House 5-1/4--6-1/2
and 9-1/4--12-1/2 on Garibaldi's movements. In a conversation he
agreed