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Publication information

Source: Independent
Source type: magazine
Document type: article
Document title: “An Experiment in Anarchy”
Author(s): Slosson, E. E.
Date of publication: 2 April 1903
Volume number: 55
Issue number: 2835
Pagination: 779-85 (excerpt below includes only page 779)

Citation

Slosson, E. E. “An Experiment in Anarchy.” Independent 2 Apr. 1903 v55n2835: pp. 779-85.

Transcription

excerpt

Keywords

anarchism.

Named persons

Leon Czolgosz; Leo Tolstoy.

Notes

“By Prof. E. E. Slosson of the University of Wyoming” (p. 779).

“Laramie, Wyo.” (p. 785).

Document

An Experiment in Anarchy [excerpt]

THE word “anarchist” is altogether too vague to mean anything, except that the person is one possessed of an indefinite discontent with the prevailing order of things. It covers the chronic kicker, the philosophic dreamer, the assassin and the non-resistant. We might well discard a word which includes equally a Tolstoy and a Czolgosz; one who overthrows the will of the majority by his own act and one who objects to having his own acts controlled in any way by the will of the majority.

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