The Israel (of Italy) is the revolutionary party, the national party, who say to Italians, You are not a race born to be slaves of the Pope, or of the Austrian whip; you are twenty-six millions of people, created free, equal, brethren, all children of God, and servants of nothing but his law.
This passage defines the "Israel of Italy" as the revolutionary national party, asserting the inherent freedom and equality of the Italian people against foreign and ecclesiastical oppression.
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