Fundamentally opposed as our minds must be to men like Proudhon and Stirner, we yet readily recognise in them their undoubted personal talents, both of mind, spirit, and character, and, above all, have never questioned their good faith. But we cannot speak thus of Bakunin. In all the changes and chances of a life that was singularly rich in change, there were far too many dark points, to which evil report had ample opportunity to attach itself. We do not see in Bakunin that proletarian in wooden sabots and blouse, with the eager thirst for knowledge and keen desire to raise himself, who dreams as he works before the compositor's frame of a juster order of things in this world, yet more for others than for himself, and would like to arrange society itself laboriously in a well-ordered compositor's case; nor do we see in Bakunin that plain German schoolmaster who would people society with mere sons of Prometheus, while he himself totters starving to the grave; who dedicates his gospel of a doctrine that would overthrow the world from pole to pole "to his Darling, Marie Donhardt," as though it were a tender love-song. Bakunin remains to us for ever as the commercial traveller of eternal revolution in a magnificent pose, and from the red cloak so picturesquely cast around him peeps out unpleasantly the dagger of Caserio. * * * * * We cannot leave Bakunin without a passing mention of his favourite pupil Sergei Netschajew,[7] although he was still less of a pure Anarchist than Bakunin, and can still less easily be separated from Russian Nihilism. [7] For Netschajew, cf. the article "Anarchism" in Wurm's _Volks-lexicon_, vol. i., and in the _Handwoerterbuch der Staatswissenschaften_, Jena, 1890, vol. i.; also E. von Laveleye, _Socialism of the Present_ (German ed. by Ch. Jasper, Halle, A.D. S., 1895). All these, however, are based almost exclusively on the information in the memoir, _L'Alliance de la Democratie Socialiste et l'Association Internationale des Travailleurs_: Report and documents published by order of the International Congress at The Hague (London and Hamburg, 1873)--a very one-sided party brochure of the Marxists against the Bakuninists, which has been proved wrong on more points than one. We regret all the more that we are limited to this source of information.