Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre. Voltairine De Cleyre
AND STORIES
| Essays | |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| The Dominant Idea | 79 |
| Anarchism | 96 |
| Anarchism and American Traditions | 118 |
| Anarchism in Literature | 136 |
| The Making of an Anarchist | 154 |
| The Eleventh of November, 1887 | 164 |
| Crime and Punishment | 173 |
| In Defense of Emma Goldman | 205 |
| Direct Action | 220 |
| The Paris Commune | 243 |
| The Mexican Revolution | 253 |
| Thomas Paine | 276 |
| Dyer D. Lum | 284 |
| Francisco Ferrer | 297 |
| Modern Educational Reform | 321 |
| Sex Slavery | 342 |
| Literature the Mirror of Man | 359 |
| The Drama of the Nineteenth Century | 381 |
| Sketches and Stories | |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| A Rocket of Iron | 409 |
| The Chain Gang | 414 |
| The Heart of Angiolillo | 420 |
| The Reward of an Apostate | 433 |
| At the End of the Alley—I | 437 |
| Alone—II | 441 |
| To Strive and Fail | 446 |
| The Sorrows of the Body | 451 |
| The Triumph of Youth | 454 |
| The Old Shoemaker | 464 |
| Where the White Rose Died | 466 |
Introduction
"Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred; a being whose selfishness is so large that it takes in the whole human race and treats self only as one of the great mass; a being keen to sense all forms of wrong, and powerful in denunciation of it; one who can reach into the future and draw it nearer. Such a being was Voltairine de Cleyre."
What could be added to this splendid tribute by Jay Fox to the memory of Voltairine de Cleyre? These admirable words express the sentiments of all the friends and comrades of that remarkable woman whose whole life was dedicated to a dominant idea.
Like many other women in public life, Voltairine de Cleyre was