The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us so are the convict’s garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on.Īnarchism could not hope to escape the fate of all other ideas of innovation. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn.
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