Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

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

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

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

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

"Nature has the habit of now and then producing a type of human being far in advance of the times; an ideal for us to emulate; a being devoid of sham, uncompromising, and to whom the truth is sacred; a being whose selfishness is so large that it takes in the whole human race and treats self only as one of the great mass; a being keen to sense all forms of wrong, and powerful in denunciation of it; one who can reach into the future and draw it nearer. Such a being was =Voltairine de Cleyre=."

What could be added to this splendid tribute by Jay Fox to the memory of =Voltairine de Cleyre=? These admirable words express the sentiments of all the friends and comrades of that remarkable woman whose whole life was dedicated to a dominant idea.