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SELECTED WORKS OF VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE

          Edited by
      ALEXANDER BERKMAN


     Biographical Sketch by
        HIPPOLYTE HAVEL


           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


     Sketches and Stories

                                      Page
A Rocket of Iron . . . . . . . . . . . 409
The Chain Gang . . . . . . . . . . . . 414
The Heart of Angiolillo  . . . . . . . 420
The Reward of an Apostate  . . . . . . 433
At the End of the Alley--I . . . . . . 437
Alone--II  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
To Strive and Fail . . . . . . . . . . 446
The Sorrows of the Body  . . . . . . . 451
The Triumph of Youth . . . . . . . . . 454
The Old Shoemaker  . . . . . . . . . . 464
Where the White Rose Died  . . . . . . 466

Transcriber's Notes:

Consistent spelling and hyphen usage are maintained within each poem/essay.

Punctuation typos with a single solution are corrected; those having more than one solution remain unchanged.

In the essay "Literature the Mirror of Man," the reference to "Bosworth's Life of Johnson" is corrected to "Boswell's Life of Johnson."

Words printed in the text as mixed small caps are surrounded by equal signs, as in =Voltairine de Cleyre=.