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 t... (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 ha... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
And Thou Too
The Hurricane
At the Grave in Waldheim
Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes
The Dirge of the Sea
I Am
Love’s Ghost
Life or Death
The Toast of Despair
Mary Wollstone Craft
John P. Altgeld
In Memoriam
The Feast of Vultures
The Suicide’s Defense
Germinal
Santa Agueda
The Road Builders
&nb... (From : TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
From: William Godwin (1784). Imogen: A Pastorial Romance From the Ancient British. PREFACE If we could allow ourselves in that license of conjecture, which is become almost inseparable from the character of an editor, we should say: That Milton having written it upon the borders of Wales, might have had easy recourse to the manuscript whose contents are now first given to the public: And that the singularity of preserving the name of the place where it was first performed in the title of his poem, was intended for an ingenuous and well-bred acknowledgement of the source from whence he drew his choicest materials. But notwithstanding the plausibility of these conjectures, we are now inclined to give up our original opinion, and to ascribe the performance to a gentleman of Wales, who lived so late as the reign of king William the third. The name of this amiable person was Rice ap Thomas. The romance was certainly at one time in hi...
Living My Life by Emma Goldman Volume one New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc., 1931. Chapter 31 OUR HEARINGS ON THE CHARGE OF CRIMINAL ANARCHY WERE repeatedly postponed and finally dropped altogether. That set me free to start on my projected tour to the Coast, the first since 1897. Before I had gone very far, my meetings were stopped by the police in three cities--Columbus, Toledo, and Detroit. The action of the authorities in Toledo was especially reprehensible because the Mayor, Brand Whitlock, was supposed to be a man of advanced ideas, known as a Tolstoyan and "philosophical" anarchist. I had met a number of American individualists who called themselves philosophical anarchists. On closer acquaintance they invariably proved neither philosophers nor anarchists, and their belief in free speech always had a "but" to it. ...
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
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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 the "National" System CH... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
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 men privileged only by nature and for that reason single... (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
... (From : University of Berkeley.)
“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 not God;
for God is love.” —iv. 7-8.
“No man hath beheld God at any time; if... (From : Gutenberg.org.)