The Liberation of Italy

History knows nothing of spontaneous generation the chain of cause and effect is unbroken and however modest be the scale on which an historical work is cast the reader has a right to ask that it should give him some idea not only of what happened but of why it happened. History knows nothing of spontaneous eneration; the chain of cause and effect is unbroken, and however modest be the scale on which an historical work is cast, the reader has a right to ask that it should give him some idea, not only of what happened, but of why it happened.