內容簡介
內容簡介 Book Excerpt: people having a common malevolent purpose. In a republic the crustthat confined the fires of violence and sedition was thinnest.No improvement in the fortunes of the original anarchists throughimmigration to what was then called the New World would have made themgood citizens. From centuries of secret war against particular forms ofauthority in their own countries they had inherited a bitter antagonism toall authority, even the most beneficent. In their new home they were worsethan in their old. In the sunshine of opportunity the rank and sicklygrowth of their perverted natures became hardy, vigorous, bore fruit. Theysurrounded themselves with proselytes from the ranks of the idle, thevicious, the unsuccessful. They stimulated and organized discontent. Everyone of them became a center of moral and political contagion. To those asyet unprepared to accept anarchy was offered the milder dogma ofSocialism, and to those even weaker in the faith something vaguely calledReform. Each was initiated inRead More