M. Bourdin has courteously allowed me to inspect the huge library of Anarchistical literature which he has collected, consisting of journals, broadsides, pamphlets, volumes, songs, theatrical plays, etc. To give you an idea of the extent and nature of the Anarchistical press, I enumerate a few of the journals: _L’Anarchie, Journal de l’Ordre_, May, 1850. (In 1850, Anarchy had already a press.) _Le Libertaire_, 1858–1861. _L’Egalité_, 1869–1872. _L’Internationale_, 1870–1873. _La Révolution Sociale_, 1871–1872. _L’Ami du Peuple_ (Liège), 1873–1875. _Ni Dieu ni Maître_, 1880. (You see we are getting on in titles.) _La Révolution Sociale_, 1880. _Le Drapeau Noir_, 1883. _L’Emeute_, 1883–1884. _La Lutte_, 1883. _Le Défi_, 1884. _La Guerre Sociale_, 1885. (Brussels). _La Révolte_, 1894. _L’Antipatriote_, 1899. (Cat out of the bag.) _Le Tocsin_, 1892–1894. _La Débâcle_, 1893. _L’Insurgé_ (Lyons), 1893. _Le Cyclone_ (Buenos Aires), 1895–1896. _La Cravache_, 1898. _Le Cravacheur_, idem. _Le Cri de Révolte_, 1898–9. _Les Crimes de Dieu_, 1898. _La Bastille_, 1902–3. _Germinal_, 1904–1910. _L’Anarchie_, 1905. _L’Anarchiste_, 1907. _L’Action Directe_, 1907–1908. _La Mère Peinard_, 1908. _La Révolution_, 1909. _Les Révoltés_, 1909. _La Bataille Syndicaliste_, 1911. _The Anarchist_ (Glasgow), 1912. And these are only a few of the journals in the great Bourdin collection.* I have only mentioned some of the French journals devoted to the cause; there are English and German as well, and there are sure to be Russian and Spanish and Italian journals to match. * This collection is for sale, I believe. It is a big movement. Give me the literature of a movement, and I will feel its pulse and tell you about its constitution. The literature of Anarchism tells that it is very much alive. What is Anarchism? It is really unconstructive Socialism and Syndicalism. The Anarchists want to destroy society as it is, and let Human Nature ramp on the remains. The Socialist wants to destroy society, and build it again on an anti-Human-natural plan. The Syndicalist wants to destroy the Business World and to erect a new business world on an unbusinesslike basis. Of the three, I prefer Anarchy. It is the only one of the three dreams based on common-sense, for it frankly aims at Anarchy, and Anarchy is exactly what it would get were it to succeed. * * * * I have said “The three dreams,” and though I have permitted myself to sneer at some points in the philosophy of some of these dreamers, I have no sneers at all to expend on their energy, and on their wholeheartedness. They are all trying to express something, and that something is the Poverty and the Misery of the world. Socialism, Syndicalism, and Anarchism are all one voice speaking in different tones. And that voice is growing and must be answered, not by Repression, but by Philosophy.