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E. Armand, “Scènes de Noel / Christmas Scenes” (1901)

December 24, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur

A church or a temple. Light, many lights. Candles that illuminate vast crucifixes, or a Christmas tree laden with toys, a fir tree whose evergreen branches evoke the image of eternity. Organs whose sonic flights seem an echo of celestial hymns. Carols that remind us of those with which our mothers rocked us to sleep… Handsome gentlemen in frock coats, tight at the waist, with eight shining gleams; polished, pomaded, combed, varnished, tied. Beautiful, elegant, fragrant ladies, studded with jewels, real or fake, whose slightly raised skirts reveal an expensively shod foot at the end of a finely arched ankle… Good, honest families in their Sunday best, made respectable, troops of children whose happy faces the symbolic tree illuminates… Ease, comfort, joy!… all that is good.

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Nelly Roussel, “La force physique et l’autorité / Physical Force and Authority” (1901)

September 16, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur

REPONSES La force physique et l’autorité Si la force musculaire constituait réellement une supériorité, ayant pour conséquence logique et nécessaire la domination, l’homme ne serait évidemment pas le roi de la création. Tant d’animaux la surpassant en vigueur physique! D’autre part — parmi les hommes — les chefs, les maîtres se recruteraient exclusivement dans le monde des « forts » de la halle ou des athlètes de la foire aux pains d’épices. J’ajouterai enfin que le « droit du plus fort » est un non sens et une infamie dans une société qui se prétend civilisée !…… D’ailleurs, cette faiblesse […]

Charles Malato, “Souvenirs de Nouvelle-Calédonie” (1901)

January 1, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Other writings on New Caledonia: As Talamo: New Caledonian Tales (1897) [English translation] “Chez les sauvages,” L’Aurore 5. no 1309 (20 Mai 1901): 1. “Les Canaques de Touho,” L’Aurore 5. no 1312 (23 Mai 1901): 1. “Missionnaires et Canaques,” L’Aurore 5. no 1322 (2 Juin 1901): 1-2. “Chez les canaques,” L’Action 4 no. 1066 (27 février 1906): 1-2. Un drame à l’Ile de Pins, serial in La France libre, 28 mars – 22 juin 1920 (68 installments) Damê : poème canaque, serial in La France libre, 3 février – 28 mars 1920 (32 installments) Les déportés, serial in Le Quotidien, […]

E. Armand — 1901

July 30, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: E. Armand [main page] Bibliography and Chronology L’Ère nouvelle (1901-1911) [Fragments] [Presse Anarchiste] [Bianco] E. Armand, “La grève générale,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 1. E. Armand, “Avis importants: A nos abonnés,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 3. E. A., “Pages de l’évangile: La vie,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 3. E. A., “Au cours de la plume,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 4. E. A., “Une médiation par mois,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 1 (Mai 1901): 4. E. A., “La scission de Lyon,” L’Ère nouvelle 1 no. 2 (Juin […]

E. Armand, “In the World, but Not of the World” (1901)

October 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

Une méditation par mois Dans le monde, mais pas du monde …Je leur ai donné la parole et le monde les a haïs, parce qu’ils ne sont pas du monde, comme moi je ne suis pas du monde. Je ne te prie pas de les ôter du monde, mais de les préserver du mal. Ils ne sont pas du monde, comme moi je ne suis pas du monde. Sanctifie-les par ta vérité : ta parole est la vérité. Comme tu m’as envoyé dans le monde, je les ai aussi envoyés dans le monde… (Jean, 17, 14-19). À remarquer que c’est […]

Herman Kuehn, “The Problem of Worry” (1901)

February 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE PROBLEM OF WORRY SOLVED BY HERMAN KUEHN THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENTIFIC MUTUALISM APPLIED TO MODERN COMMERCE 1901 PREFACE. There came to me one day an earnest, intelligent, industrious man tormented by his worries. He wanted me to tell him what caused “hard times” and panics; and whether it was not in the power of the industrial classes to do something to avert them. In a series of letters I unfolded to my questioner a plan of Industrial and Commercial Credit Cooperation. These letters, just as they were written, have been collected, forming this booklet. The author is persuaded […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Memorial Oration” (1913)

July 31, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Memorial Oration [November 11, 1901] Let me begin with a confession. I make it sorrowfully and with self-disgust; but in the presence of great sacrifice we learn humility, and if my comrades could give their lives for their belief, why let me give my pride. Yet I would not give it, for personal utterance is of trifling importance, were it not that I think at this particular season, it will encourage those of our sympathizers whom the recent outburst of Savagery may have disheartened, and perhaps lead some who are standing where I once stood to do as I […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Anarchism” (1901)

July 27, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THERE are two spirits abroad in the world,—the spirit of Caution, the spirit of Dare, the spirit of Quiescence, the spirit of Unrest; the spirit of Immobility, the spirit of Change; the spirit of Hold-fast-to-that-which-you-have, the spirit of Let-go-and-fly-to-that-which-you-have-not; the spirit of the slow and steady builder, careful of its labors, loath to part with any of its achievements, wishful to keep, and unable to discriminate between what is worth keeping and what is better cast aside, and the spirit of the inspirational destroyer, fertile in creative fancies, volatile, careless in its luxuriance of effort, inclined to cast away the […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “Her Life for Labor” (1901)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

HER LIFE FOR LABOR “But a man must succeed for himself first—before he can help others to any extent. What can a poor, obscure, struggling young man do for the cause of labor, or any other cause? When he has acquired some wealth, influence and position, he is better able to make his efforts felt. The wiser way is to devote one’s self to gaining a sure, permanent position, then one can work to some purpose.” The young man spoke earnestly, his restless movements showing his energetic, forceful nature. The young woman sitting at the table with her chin resting […]

Lizzie M. Holmes, “The ‘Dignity of Labor’” (1901)

July 24, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE “DIGNITY OF LABOR.” In a corner of the great, dusty workroom of a large suit-making establishment, near a grimy window, sat a young woman awaiting the “starting of the steam;” not idly, for the dinner half hour was seldom all “wasted” in eating. She was sorting out pieces of cloaks and laying them together ready to be run under the greedy feeder of the machine when the wheels should begin to turn. Agatha Willis might have been handsome in her early youth, for her features were regular and her hair still waved prettily back from a low, wide forehead; […]