THE CHILDREN AND PSYCHOLOGY
Paul Goodman
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WHAT IS most significant, it seems to me, is the earnest attention
paid to the Children and Family as a subject, the desire of parents to
be Informed and thereby do their best, rather than following their
wit and impulse; or to say this another way, what is significant is the
importance assigned in our society to Psychology itself? for Psychology is still by and large the
family-psychology that Freud made it
discussing the problems of jealousy, infantile dependency authority, submissiveness and
rebelliousness, and sibling competition: and
problems of spite, moral prejudice and other reaction-formations
springing from instinctual deprivation. This interest in the Childre... (From : http://www.tao.ca/~freedom/goodman.html.)
FABLES FOR CHILDREN ⚘
STORIES FOR CHILDREN
⚘ NATURAL SCIENCE
STORIES ⚘ POPULAR EDUCATION ⚘
DECEMBRISTS
⚘ MORAL TALES ⚘ ⚘ ⚘
By COUNT LEV N. T́OLSTÓY
Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by
LEO WIENER
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard University
BOSTON ⚘ DANA ESTES &
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CONTENTS
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FABLES FOR CHILDREN
Æsop's Fables ... (From : Gutenberg.org.)
FLEETWOOD; or, THE NEW MAN OF FEELING. ____ by WILLIAM GODWIN. CHAPTER XII "YOU will readily imagine what a thunder-stroke it was to me to be entered as one of the members in this vast machine. Up to the period of eight years of age I had been accustomed to walk upon the level plain of human society; I had submitted to my parents and instructors; but I had no idea that there was any class or cast of my fellow-creatures superior to that in which I was destined to move. This persuasion inspires into the heart, particularly the heart of the young, such gaiety of temper, and graceful confidence in action! Now I was cast down at once, to be the associate of the lowest class of mechanics, paupers, brutified in intellect, and squalid in attire. "I had, however, the courage to make up my resolution at once to the calamities of m...
The text is from my copy of Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays. Second Revised Edition. New York & London: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1911. pp. 151-172.FRANCISCO FERRER AND THE MODERN SCHOOL
EXPERIENCE has come to be considered the best school of life. The man or woman who does not learn some vital lesson in that school is looked upon as a dunce indeed. Yet strange to say, that though organized institutions continue perpetuating errors, though they learn nothing from experience, we acquiesce, as a matter of course.
There lived and worked in Barcelona a man by the name of Francisco Ferrer. A teacher of children he was, known and loved by his people. Outside of Spain only the cultured few knew of Francisco Ferr... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
Issued by "Liberty" Press, Printed and Published by James Tochattl. London: 1897.
THE GODS AND THE PEOPLE.
by Voltairine de CleyreWhat have you done, O skies, That the millions should kneel to you? Why should they lift wet eyes, Grateful with human dew?
Why should they clasp their hands, And bow at thy shrines, O heaven, Thanking thy high commands For the mercies that thou hast given?
What have those mercies been, O thou who art called the Good? Who trod through a world of sin, And stood where the felon stood
What is that wondrous peace Vouchsafed to the child of dust For whom all doubt shall cease In the light of thy perfect trust?
How hast Thou heard their prayers Smoking up from the bleeding sod, Who, crushed b... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
The text is from my copy of Emma Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays. Second Revised Edition. New York & London: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1911. pp. 173-182.THE HYPOCRISY 0F PURITANISM
SPEAKING of Puritanism in relation to American art, Mr. Gutzon Borglum said: "Puritanism has made us self-centered and hypocritical for so long, that sincerity and reverence for what is natural in our impulses have been fairly bred out of us, with the result that there can be neither truth nor individualality in our art."
Mr. Borglum might have added that Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand v... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
This work appears in Anarchy Archives courtesy of International Institute for Social History.
Reclus, Elisée. The Ideal and Youth. Liberty Press, London, 1895.
The Ideal and Youth.
By ELISÉE RECLUS.
If the word "Ideal" has really any meaning, it signifies far more than a vague yearning for better things, wearisome search for happiness, or a fitful and sad longing for an environment less hateful than the society of to-day; ah yes, we must give to the term an exact value, we must settle resolutely and intelligently what is the ostensible end of our ceaseless aspirations. Let us investigate then that Ideal.
For some it wo... (From : Anarchy Archives.)
James Guillaume 1876
Ideas on Social Organization
Written: August 1874;Source: Bakunin on Anarchy, translated and edited by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.
Bakunin was above all preoccupied with the theory and practice of revolution and wrote very little about how the everyday practical problems of social reconstruction would be handled immediately following a successful revolution. Nevertheless, these problems were intensively discussed in Bakunin’s circle and among the anti-authoritarian sections of the International. In “Ideas on Social Organization”, Guillaume discusses the transition from capitalism to anarchism – a synthesis of “Bakuninist” ideas on how this transition could be effected without the resto... (From : Marxists.org.)
The Justice of the Peace
by Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)
Translated from the French by Robert Helms
"La Justice de Paix" first appeared in La France on July 24, 1885, and was later anthologized in Lettres de ma Chaumiere, dedicated to Guy de Maupassant.
The Justice of the Peace occupied a ground floor hearing room in
the village's town hall that looked out onto the square. The stark, til (From : Mid-Atlantic Infoshop.)
CHAPTER V. “Yes: for ten years I lived the most revolting existence, while dreaming of the noblest love, and even in the name of that love. Yes, I want to tell you how I killed my wife, and for that I must tell you how I debauched myself. I killed her before I knew her. “I killed THE wife when I first tasted sensual joys without love, and then it was that I killed MY wife. Yes, sir: it is only after having suffered, after having tortured myself, that I have come to understand the root of things, that I have come to understand my crimes. Thus you will see where and how began the drama that has led me to misfortune. “It is necessary to go back to my sixteenth year, when I was still at school, and my elder brother a first-year student. I had not yet known women but, like all the unfortunate children of our society, I was already ...