The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-05
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THE UNEASY CHAIR

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THE UNEASY CHAIR
THE ANARCHIST AS A STARTLING
PARADOx.--To the average mind, the
anarchist, and especially the anarchist
who believes in the bomb and the dagger,
is a wholly bloodthirsty creature. But it
seems from Alvan F. Sanborn's Paris and
the Social Revolution that such an esti-
mate Of even the violent anarchist is quite
mistaken one. In his chapter on "The
Character of the Propaganda par lie
Fait,' Mr.. Sanborn quotes A. Hamon as
follows:
The typical anarchist, then, may be defined
as follows: A man perceptibly affected by the
spirit of revolt under more of its forms
opposition, Investigation criticism, innovation
endowed with strong love of liberty, egoistic
or individualstic. and possessed of great curios-
itya keen desire to know. These traits are
supplemented by an ardent love of others,
highly developed moral sensitiveness, a profound
sentiment of Justice. an alert logical faculty
| and pronounced combative tendencies.
Such is the average psychic type Of the an
archist::. He is. to summarize. person rebel
ious liberty loving at once G and
missionary zeal. ..'s FL. Z. .-
Mr. sanborn then adds from his own
observation: "a o. s4 =.
To these conclusions everyone who has been
privileged to know well any number of
| chists will be likely to subscribe. And, if NJ.
Hamon, instead of extending his Investigations
to all sorts and conditions of anarchists, had
limited them to the propagandists par lie fat,
his conclusions would not have been essentially
different. He would probably have felt. con
strained to admit that the ''ardent love of 9TH
| ers' and the profound sentiment of JUSTICE
were curiously blended with petty cravings for
notoriety or large desires for glory; the ''mis-
,t;,,, -
| mystifcation about matters of purely personal
| concern or projects Of violence and the ''highly
developed moral sensitiveness'' with a seemingly
contradictory moral callousness regarding the
means permissible to attain end. But the
other hand. NJ Hamon would surely have added
these sterling quaties-a love of animals,
surpassing sweetness In all the ordinary rela-
tons of life, exceptional sobriety of demeanor.
frugality and regularity. austerity even, of liy
ing, and courage beyond compare.
In this one extract from Mr.. Sanborns
book is found enough to convince that the
book is highly worth while as study q
a psychological, social and political pfle-2
nomenon of first Importance. The author
/ is not an anarchist, far from it. He is
an ultra conservative, but he has studied
the anarchist and socialist at close range.
with great sympathy, and to good eff.
feet, and has presented his observations
and conclusions in an Illuminating fashion.
| The book is a large and handsome volume
! richly illustrated with drawings of ac-
4 ton and force by Vaughan Trowbridge.
/ Small, Maynard & Co., Boston.
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