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