[629] _Ib._ p. 246.
[630] _Ib._ pp. 248-9.
[631] _Ib._ p. 253.
[632] _Ib._ pp. 253-5.
[633] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 139.
[634] _Ib._ pp. 116-17.
[635] Kr. "_Conquete_" p. 75.
[636] _Ib._ p. 85.
[637] Kr. "_Conquete_" pp. 76-96.
[638] _Ib._ pp. 104-7.
[639] _Ib._ pp. 114-16.
[640] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 260.
[641] _Ib._ p. 260.
[642] _Ib._ pp. 99, 254; Kr. "_Temps nouveaux_" p. 54.
[643] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 90.
[644] Kr. "_Paroles_" pp. 92-5.
[645] _Ib._ p. 312.
[646] _Ib._ p. 285.
[647] _Ib._ p. 283.
[648] _Ib._ p. 284.
[649] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 284.
[650] _Ib._ p. 285.
[651] Kr. "_Paroles_" pp. 285-8.
[652] _Ib._ pp. 293-304.
[653] _Ib._ p. 292.
[654] Kr. "_Paroles_" p. 304.
CHAPTER VIII
TUCKER'S TEACHING
1.--GENERAL
Benjamin R. Tucker was born in 1854 at South Dartmouth, near New
Bedford, Massachusetts. From 1870 to 1872 he studied technology in
Boston; there he made the acquaintance of Josiah Warren[655] in 1872. In
1874 he traveled in England, France, and Italy.
In 1877 Tucker took the temporary editorship of the "Word," published at
Princeton, Massachusetts. In 1878 he published the quarterly "The
Radical Review" in New Bedford; but only four numbers appeared. In 1881,
in Boston, he founded the semi-monthly paper "Liberty," of which there
also appeared for a short time a German edition under the title
"Libertas"; in Boston, also, he was for ten years one of the editorial
staff of the "Globe." Since 1892 he has lived in New York, and "Liberty"
has appeared there as a weekly.[656]
2. Tucker's teaching about law, the State, and property is contained
mainly in his articles in "Liberty." He has published a collection[657]
of these articles under the title "Instead of a Book. By a Man Too Busy
to Write One. A fragmentary exposition of philosophical Anarchism"
(1893).
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3. Tucker calls his teaching "Anarchism." "Circumstances have combined
to make me somewhat conspicuous as an exponent of the theory of Modern
Anarchism."[658] "Anarchy does not mean simply opposed to the _archos_,
or political leader. It means opposed to _arch[=e]_. Now, _arch[=e]_, in
the first instance, means _beginning_, _origin_. From this it comes to
mean _a first principle_, _an element_; then _first place_, _supreme
power_, _sovereignty_, _dominion_, _command_, _authority_; and finally
_a sovereignty_, _an empire_, _a realm_, _a magistracy_, _a governmental
office_. Etymologically, then, the word anarchy may have several
meanings. But the word Anarchy as a philosophical term and the word
Anarchist as the name of a philosophical sect were first appropriated in
the sense of opposition to dominion, to authority, and are so held by
right of occupancy, which fact makes any other philosophical use of them
improper and confusing."[659]
2.--BASIS
_Tucker considers that the law which has supreme validity for every one
of us is self-interest; and from this he derives the law of equal
liberty._
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