
Month: July 2018


Eliphalet Kimball, “Thoughts on Natural Principles” (1867)
It is only by anarchy and violence that a great accumulation of social wrongs can be removed. Anarchy is a good word. It means, “without a head.” Violence is the healing power of Nature applied to society. The violence which would follow from the abolishment of law, would be proportion to the number and magnitude of the wrongs that needed removal. There ought always to be anarchy, but there would be no violence where there were no wrongs. […]



Josiah Warren, “Social Reform in America” (1862)
When, in 1827, I first conceived the principles of equity, and designed to illustrate them by the working of a family store, I talked incessantly for six weeks to my most sympathising friends in order to get them to appreciate the subject, and to assist me in working it out; but the whole of that labour was entirely thrown away; but as soon as I commenced the store single-handed—individually—it explained itself, and more than itself. The working of it—the facts of it—explained the principle of Equity as no words could; and I saw that it was the incompetency of language that had neutralised all my efforts at theorising. […]

A Letter from Georges Etiévant (1898)
Source: L’Universe no. 11,097 (June 17, 1898): 3.


“Ravachol is the hero of the day” (1892)
Gazette Anecdotique 7 (April 15, 1892): 193–194.

A Brawl on the Boulevard Barbès (1892)
Le Petit Parisien 17 no. 5819 (October 2, 1892): 2.

Lewis Masquerier’s “Sociology” Reconstructed
Bibliography: Lewis Masquerier, “Godology.—No. 1,” Boston Investigator 39 no. 27 (November 3, 1869): 209. Lewis Masquerier, “Godology.—No. 2,” Boston Investigator 39 no. 28 (November 10, 1869): 217. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical Convention of the World’s […]