“From the ancient strife of territorial acquisition we are labouring, I trust and believe, to substitute another, a peaceful and a fraternal strife among nations, the honest and the noble race of industry and art.”

— William Ewart Gladstone

An Examination of the official reply of the Neapolitan Government (London: John Murray, 1952), p. 50.
1850s

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