Jefferson City, MO, 29 June 1919,
Darling, mine.
There is so much, so much I want to write you. I scarcely know where to begin & where to let off. I will have to content myselfs with the most essential & leave the other when we meet - just three months from to day. My birth-day - like last year I spent it in bed. Not quite so ill, but in pain & discomfiture. The same thing I had 2 weeks ago & which I will probably have to endure during most of the Summer. As a result of my laying off a very funny thing happened. Funny only because I have so short a time in here. Other wise it would have been the beginning of a serious & bitter struggle. I have repeatedly written you how very decent Dr Mc Nearney has always been to me.... (From : University of Berkeley.)
Published Essays and Pamphlets
Alexander Berkman's Last Daysby Emma Goldman[Published in The Vanguard
(New York), Aug.-Sept. 1936.]
St. Tropez July 12th, 1936
It is only two weeks since our beloved comrade
Alexander Berkman passed away. Yet it seems an eternity to me.
The blow his untimely death has struck me has left me completely
shattered. I find it difficult to collect my thoughts. But I feel
sure you will want to know all about Sasha's end. For have you
not loved him all through the years?
Sasha left a note which we found after we
returned from his last resting place. It reads: "I don't
want to live a sick man. Dependent. Forgive me Emmie darling.
And you too Emma. Love to All. Help Emmie." signed, Sasha.
I hav... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
From: William Godwin (1784). Imogen: A Pastorial Romance From the Ancient British. BOOK THE SECOND THUNDER STORM.--THE RAPE OF IMOGEN.--EDWIN ARRIVES AT THE GROTTO OF ELWY.--CHARACTER OF THE MAGICIAN.--THE END OF THE FIRST DAY. THE song of Llewelyn was heard by the shepherds with reverence and mute attention. Their blameless hearts were lifted to the skies with the sentiment of gratitude; their honest bosoms overflowed with the fervor of devotion. They proved their sympathy with the feelings of the bard, not by licentious shouts and wild huzzas, but by the composure of their spirits, the serenity of their countenances' and the deep and unutterable silence which universally prevailed. And now the hoary minstrel rose from the little eminence, beneath the aged oak, from whose branches depended the ivy and the honeysuckle, on which the veneration of the multitude had placed him. He came into the midst of the plain, and the sons and the daughter...
IN APPRECIATION Suggestions that I write my memoirs came to me when I had barely begun to live, and continued all through the years. But I never paid heed to the proposal. I was living my life intensely -- what need to write about it? Another reason for my reluctance was the conviction I entertained that one should write about one's life only when one had ceased to stand in the very torrent of it. "When one has reached a good philosophic age," I used to tell my friends, "capable of viewing the tragedies and comedies of life impersonally and detachedly -- particularly one's own life -- one is likely to create an autobiography worth while." Still feeling adolescently young in spite of advancing years, I did not consider myself competent to undertake such a task. Moreover, I always lacked the necessary leisure for concentrated writing. My enforced European inactivity left me enough time to read a great deal, including biographies and autobio...
A NEW BANKING SYSTEM
THE NEEDFUL CAPITAL FOR REBUILDING
THE BURNT DISTRICT
By LYSADNER SPOONER.
BOSTON:
SOLD BY A. WILLIAMS & CO.
135 WASHINGTON SREET
1873
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,
By LYSANDER SPOONER,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Printed by
WARREN RICHARDSON,
112 Washington St.
C O N T E N T S.
CHAPTER I. A New Banking System CHAPTER II. Specie Payments CHAPTER III. No Inflation Prices CHAPTER IV. Security of the System CHAPTER V. The System as a Credit System CHAPTER VI. Amount of Currency Needed CHAPTER VII. Importance of the System to Massachusetts, CHAPTER VIII. The True Character of (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Power Corrupts The Best
by Michael Bakunin (1867)
The State is nothing else but this domination and exploitation regularized and systemized. We shall attempt to demonstrate it by examining the consequence of the government of the masses of the people by a minority, at first as intelligent and as devoted as you like, in an ideal State, founded on a free contract.
Suppose the government to be confined only to the best citizens. At first these citizens are privileged not by right, but by fact. They have been elected by the people because they are the most intelligent, clever, wise, and courageous and devoted. Taken from the mass of the citizens, who are regarded as all equal, they do not yet form a class apart, but a group of ... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Published Essays and Pamphlets
An Unexpected Dash Through Spainby Emma Goldman[Published in The Road to Freedom (New York)]
[Part I, Vol. 5, no. 8, April, 1929]
SITTING tucked away in quiet St. Tropez, at work on my
autobiography, I was as far from the thought of a trip to Spain
as if I had been living in Tokio, Shanghai or Kamchatka. I did
plan a rest away from my book during the Christmas holidays. One
needs a break, even in the most ideal love life, and the process
of reliving and writing one's past is anything but ideal. Au
contraire, as we say in France! It is very painful, with much of
the bitter and nothing of the sweet that love represents. Writing
strenuously for five months entitled me to a rest; even my
en... (From : University of Berkeley.)
WHAT MEN LIVE BY AND OTHER TALES
By Leo Tolstoy
“We know that we have passed out of death into life, because
we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.”
—1 “Epistle St. John” iii. 14.
“Whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in
need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the
love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not
love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and
truth.” —iii. 17-18.
“Love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of
God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth... (From : Gutenberg.org.)