The Following Is an Excerpt from Giuseppe Mazzini's the Duties

question 48

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The following is an excerpt from Giuseppe Mazzini's The Duties of Man (Evaluating the Evidence 23.1) . Mazzini's words were addressed to Italian workingmen: "God gave you the means of multiplying your forces and your powers of action indefinitely when he gave you a Country, when, like a wise overseer of labor, who distributes the different parts of the work according to the capacity of the workmen, he divided Humanity into distinct groups upon the face of our globe, and thus planted the seeds of nations. Evil governments have disfigured the design of God, which you may see clearly marked out, as far, at least, as regards Europe, by the courses of the great rivers, by the lines of the lofty mountains, and by other geographical conditions; they have disfigured it by conquest, by greed, by jealousy of the just sovereignty of others; disfigured it so much that today there is perhaps no nation except England and France whose confines correspond to this design."
According to Mazzini, nations are

• A)divisive, destructive things.
• B)less important than individuals.
• C)part of God's design.
• D)artificial and, therefore, evil.

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