Anarchist Beginnings
Solomon Something, “Some Account of Mr. Anything” (1840)
To the Editor of the Christian Observer. Should your observing eye, in the course of its comprehensive range, have lighted on any character in the religious world at all resembling the picture I am about to exhibit; I shall depend on the insertion of this paper for the benefit of the present generation of professed Christians. Mr. Anything, an acquaintance of mine, is a man blameless in his morals, and amiable in his disposition. His views of religious truth so nearly coincide, as to all material points, with my own, that I have no difference with him on the subject […]