"No man can emancipate himself, except by emancipating with him all the men around him. My liberty is the liberty of everyone, for I am not truly free, for not only in thought but in deed, except when my liberty and my rights find their transformation, their sanction, in the liberty and the rights of all men, my equals."

M. Bakunin

"All are awaiting the birth of a new order of things; all ask themselves, some with misgivings, others with hope, what the morro will bring forth. It will not come with empty hands. The century which has witnessed so many grand discoveries in the world of science cannot pass away without giving us still greater conquests.... After so much hatred we long to love each other, and for this reason we are the enemies of private property and despisers of the law."

Élisée Reclus

PETER KROPOTKIN AT WORK

KROPOTKIN'S PERSONALITY AND IDEAS WERE TO SUCH AN EXTENT BEFORE COMRADES AND THE PUBLIC AT LARGE, UNTILL 1914 AT Least, that little remains to be said at this Hour of his death, when one feels disinclined to compile hosts of facts and Figures, to dissect ideas, or to record small Traits and anecdotes. Again, that evolution, let loose in 1914 and since being spelled with an R of ever-growing proportions, is still so unsettled that we can hardly calculate the different forces at Work and foresee their final course; so, with many factors Still hidden, at least to our observation, we cannot rightly Judge at this moment what influence Kropotkin's life-work And ideas had, and maintain, on all that happened and on The much greater bulk of all that is preparing. Authority, Which he fought all his life, seems to be victorious everywhere from Imperialism to Bolshevism; and yet, to most