It is very interesting to learn that there is a Handbooker Club in Newcastle-on-Tye, and that its members meet on Sunday evenings to discuss the matter furnished by those columns. The secretary of the club invites me to an expression of my views on Egoism and Altruism, mainly, as I gather, in the hope […]
Memorial de la Loire et de Haute-Lore, March 13th, 1914, page 6: ACHETEUR DE TRESSES De soie artificielie désire entrer en relations avec fabricants de ces articles. S’adr. avec échantillons et détails a M. Seklew et Cie, 11 Chester St. Oxford Rd., Manchester, Angleterre. BUYER OF BRAIDS Artificial silk Wants to get in touch with […]
Winter, 1923. Charlestown Prison DEAR MRS. EVANS: In my opinion the umane afflictions caused by umane faults are due, not so much for lack of morals sense, but to use wrong application of it. The sentiment of justice too can become a source of injustice when wrong. The crusaids for example, were possible by […]
JA Andrews, forgotten Australian radical intellectual 1865 JA Andrews (John Arthur Andrews; Jack Andrews; d. 1903), Australian anarchist writer and pamphleteer, probably the most important of the group which came together in the Melbourne Anarchist Club. Henry Lawson knew him (c. 1892) when Andrews was 27 and campaigning in Sydney (for which he ended up […]
What is the I of Me and You and the other one billion, five hundred million nine hundred and ninety-nine specimens of the Homo Genus that happen to be moping around on this dust mote? My Soul, Spirit, Will, Consciousness, Ego, Mentality and Mind are subordinate to I. I boast of my strong Will, yet […]
Might is Right Might was right when Christ was hanged Beside the Jordan’s foam; Might was right when Gracchus bled Upon the stones of Rome: And might was right when Danton fell, When Emmet passed away— “‘Tis the logic of the ancient world, And the gospel of to-day.” Might was right when Spartacus Went down […]
The New Age No. 671 New Series. Vol.1. No.12 Thursday, July 18, 1907, P.188 MARGINALIA. Now that Nietzsche has entered the sphere of general discussion it is natural that publishers should find a growing demand for works dealing with the philosophy of Egoism, and Mr. Fifield is doing a service by issuing a translation of […]
My property is not a thing, since this has an existence independent of me; only my might is my own. Not this tree, but my might or control over it, is what is mine. Now, how is this might perversely expressed? They say I have a right to this tree, or it is my rightful […]
Schmidt (Stirner) and his Egoistic Anarchism I cannot remember whether Max Nordau has included Schmidt among the imaginative monstrosities of his “Degeneration;” but if ever a person earnt an epitaph from that atrabilious Philistine, that person was Johann Kaspar Schmidt, pseudonymously known as Max Stirner. Stirner—I shall henceforth call him Stirner—was the expounder of […]
THE LION AND THE LAMB “Might shall make right the law of the world” – this was one of the beautiful phrases President Wilson concocted for the benefit of the unthinking. It is indeed a mouth-filling resonant sentence but it is nevertheless untrue. “Might shall make right the law of the world” is […]
