This was of no less significant a factor which discourage early unification. ... It was doubtful whether they could succeed with no foreign aid but only an ant-revolutionary Holy Alliance. The main forces of Risorgimento, that is, Romanticism with the intellectual work of Lesparda and Mazzini and industrialism with little economic basis and an awakened education were still weak, uncoordinated, vague in goal and divided in leadership and this was no clear effort to know which method was to the employed. ... The Federalists betrayed the movement and it was the wrong horse to be backed. ...

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