NEW YORK
MOTHER EARTH PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION
1914


Set up and electrotyped.
Published May, 1914.


Contents

Poems
PAGE
[The Burial of My Past Self]17
[Night on the Graves]18
[The Christian's Faith]18
[The Freethinker's Plea]22
[To My Mother]26
[Betrayed]27
[Optimism]33
[At the Grave in Waldheim]33
[The Hurricane]34
[Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes]36
[Bastard Born]36
[Hymn]42
[You and I]42
[The Toast of Despair]44
[In Memoriam—To Dyer D. Lum]45
[Out of the Darkness]47
[Mary Wollstonecraft]49
[The Gods and the People]50
[John P. Altgeld]56
[The Cry of the Unfit]56
[In Memoriam—To Gen. M. M. Trumbull]58
[The Wandering Jew]58
[The Feast of Vultures]59
[The Suicide's Defense]62
[A Novel of Color]64
[Germinal]65
["Light Upon Waldheim"]66
[Love's Compensation]66
[The Road Builders]68
[Angiolillo]69
[Ave et Vale]70
[Marsh-Bloom]74
[Written—in—Red]75

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