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. I cannot tell - but it the earth shall see! When each at least unto himself shall waken.Ĭomes it in sunshine? In the tempest’s thrill? Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. They shall continue blind among the blind.īut thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, To them the word’s right meaning was not given. The truth that lies behind a word to find, ”Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldmann 1911 sourceĬhapter 1: Anarchism: What It Really Stands forĮver reviled, accursed, ne’er understood,
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