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Ezra Heywood was born in 1829. He was an anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and feminist. He developed an individual anarchist philosophy that was fundamental in printing the Free Love magazine, The Word.
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Government is only a scaffolding to build man; a temporary convenience, to secure order and justice, to vanish as we ascend into unison with ideas; the garment society wears to be refitted for larger life, or left behind for the next arrival in the cradle. The elements of growth and original sovereignty forever inhere in the people, and no government can be perpetual, any more than a coat can be perpetual."
From : "The War Method of Peace," by Ezra Heywood, 1863
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As yet, barbarism inspires the methods, and is the leading star of civilization. We have not ascended to the realm of ideas..."
From : "The War Method of Peace," by Ezra Heywood, 1863
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This savagery of materialism, the scent of blood rousing ferocious instincts, obtrudes the age of the brute into the age of man. Democratic freedom has not yet cuts its wisdom teeth..."
From : "The War Method of Peace," by Ezra Heywood, 1863
About Ezra Heywood
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This person has authored 1 documents, with 15,285 words or 92,592 characters.
Anarchism : Anarchist and Anti-Authoritarianism -- 1873 ~ (15,285 Words / 92,592 Characters)
With an Introduction by James J. Martin Introduction In reissuing this famous but long-neglected work for the first time in over a century, it is not intended that it furnish a pretext to leap into the complex controversy concerning "women's rights" which has become increasingly intensified in the last fifteen years. The object is rather to bring attention to an undeservedly obscured figure in American intellectual and ideological history, first of all, and to put on the contemporary record one of the overlooked phases of the struggle to achieve equality before the law, especially, for women in the USA. It has been observed that it has become progressively more difficult to write about any phase of this subject recently, as the language of these times becomes more jagged and hostile, and felicity of expression more and more becomes identified with patronization or condescension. Gr... (From : crispinsartwell.com.)
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