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  "title": "Swinburne's republican earth speaks back",
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      "exact": "Swinburne in the high summer of his scepticism tried in vain to wrestle with this difficulty.",
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  "body_markdown": "The named volume does join religious immanence to revolutionary politics, but its own explanation deserves hearing. *Songs before Sunrise* first appeared in 1871; the edition inspected here is Gutenberg's transcription of the 1917 Heinemann printing. Its dedication addresses Joseph Mazzini and presents Italy's liberation as a republican example for other nations. Chesterton's reference to Garibaldi therefore captures the Italian revolutionary setting while leaving the volume's named dedicatee unmentioned. [Dedication, pp. v–vi](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4072/4072-h/4072-h.htm).\n\nThe particular poem behind the ensuing quotation is *Hertha*. Its maternal speaker identifies herself with natural processes and human beings, replacing an external creator with a shared source of life. Yet she also commands free self-giving, rejects the relation of master and slave, and culminates in the Republic. [*Hertha*, pp. 72–80, especially pp. 75 and 78–80](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4072/4072-h/4072-h.htm). Thus the poem explicitly attempts the passage from unity to emancipation that Chesterton denies it can justify. Whether that attempt succeeds is a philosophical judgment; the presence of an ardent emancipatory purpose is established by the poem itself.",
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