1888

poetry

V. de C., “A Poetic Swing Around the Circle” (1888)

August 6, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur
A Poetic Swing Around the Circle Now, all he truth seekers, attend my tale. I am not writing “no such word as dale” (Which, Truth Seeker observes, is common sense Beyond the average poem’s just pretense), But scribbling out a simple little story. For any fibs you’ll please giv God glory, For any merit please giv me the credit, And render all due thanks when you hav read it. There is a place that’s called the Smoky City; It has that reputation, more’s the pity That nicknames cling when we hav long outgrown them; In cases like thi people shouldn’t […]
Anarchist Beginnings

F. Tarrida de Mármol, “Economía política y economía acrática” (1888)

December 21, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
ECONOMÍA POLÍTICA Y ECONOMÍA ACRÁTICA I La economía política es la ciencia más inexacta de cuantas existen: ni el dictado de ciencia merece. Fúndase en el egoísmo, el engaño, la ambición, la desconfianza y la injusticia. Tiende á generalizar, por medio de leyes que son otras tantas imposiciones, los principios más absurdos y anti-humanitarios. La economía acrática, por el contrario, partiendo de la autonomía individual y del estudio del organismo humano sus variadas manifestaciones, tiende única y exclusivamente á mantener en todo tiempo la libertad inherente al hombre, para lo cual no se contenta con atacar los dogmas económicos existentes […]
fiction

Ricardo Mella, “Leoncio” (1888) (ES)

December 14, 2016
LEONCIO No es lo que suele llamarse un carácter excepcional. Es un tipo casi vulgar, pues que abunda en las sociedades modernas. Los datos mismos proceden de la vida real. No es, pues, una fantasía de la imaginación, y corro, por tanto, el riesgo de ofrecer como objeto de estudio lo baladí, lo insignificante, haciendo bostezar á mis lectores. Y en efecto: nada hallarán grandilocuente, noble, sublime, en este artículo; nada que se parezca á un gran carácter ó á un genio particular, extraordinario. La observación es mi único elemento, y esa buena señora raras veces tropieza con lo excepcional, […]
Anarchist Beginnings

John Henry Mackay, “Anarchy” (1888)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur
Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them that ne’er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word’s right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure When each at least unto himself shall waken. Comes it […]
Blazing Star Library

George Willis Cooke, “William Batchelder Greene”

June 5, 2016
“WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE” from George Willis Cooke’s Historical and Biographical Introduction to the Rowfant Club reprint of The Dial (Cleveland, 1902) [NOTE: There is considerable disagreement among sources about the particulars of Greene’s literary output. Titles and dates in this account may be unreliable. In particular, poetry volumes attributed to Greene, such as “Imogen,” may be the work of his son, also William Batchelder Greene. In the third number of the second volume of “The Dial” was printed an article on “First Principles” by William Batchelder Greene, then minister of the Unitarian church at Brookfield, Mass. This was his only […]
From the Archives

Oscar C. McColloch, The Tribe of Ishmael (1888)

March 30, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur
Fans of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie or Ron Sakolsky and James Koehnline’s Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture will be familiar with the story of the Tribe of Ben Ishmael, a nomadic, mixed-race group that may have had Muslim origins and were eventually the target of a 1907 “eugenic” program of forced sterilization in Indiana. In 1923, Arthur H. Estabrook published an account of the family. The Eugenics Archive also has online a number of pictures of Ishmaelite homes and such. None of this material is uncontroversial. On the genealogy sites, members of the Ishmael family […]