Emma Goldman

The tour is to begin May 12th and lasts for a month or six weeks.

Emma Goldman, Box 217, Madison Square Station.

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Section 3 of Mother Earth, Volume 1, Number 2, April 1906.

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Section 3, The Child and Its Enemies, by Emma Goldman.

is the child to be considered as an individuality or as an object to be moulded according to the whims and fancies of those about it this seems to me to be the most important question to be answered by parents and educators and whether the child is to grow from within whether all that craves expression will be permitted to come forth toward the light of day or whether it is to be kneaded like dough through external forces depends upon the proper answer to this vital question the longing of the best and noblest of our times makes for the strongest individualities every sensitive being abhors the idea of being treated as a mere machine or as a mere parrot of conventionality and respectability the human being craves recognition of his kind it must be borne in mind that it is through the channel of the child that the development of the mature man must go and that the present ideas of the educating or training of the latter in the school and the family even the family of the liberal or radical are such as to stifle the natural growth of the child every institution of our day the family the state our moral codes sees in every strong beautiful uncompromising personality a deadly enemy therefore every effort is being made to cramp human emotion and originality of thought in the individual into a strait-jacket from its earliest infancy or to shape every human being according to one pattern not into a well-rounded individuality but into a patient work-slave professional automaton tax-paying citizen or righteous moralist if one nevertheless meets with real spontaneity which by the way is a rare treat it is not due to our method of rearing or educating the child the personality often asserts itself regardless of official and family barriers such a discovery should be celebrated as an unusual event since the obstacles placed in the way of growth and development of character are so numerous that it must be considered a miracle if it retains its strength and beauty and survives the various attempts at crippling that which is most essential to it Indeed, he who has freed himself from the fetters of the thoughtlessness and stupidity of the commonplace, he who can stand without moral crutches, without the approval of public opinion, private laziness, Friedrich Nietzsche called it, may well intone a high and voluminous song of independence and freedom.

Do you feel the same? The funny thing is, is when I was young, I had a few years where I was really interested in anarchism and anarchist philosophy.

I read, like, Bakunin and Emma Goldman, Noam Chomsky...

Yeah.

And

I failed to note the name of the sender.

Will the kind remitter communicate with me at once? Emma Goldman.

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SECTION 12 OF MOTHER EARTH VOLUME 1 NUMBER 7 SEPTEMBER 1906 MOTHER EARTH VOLUME 1 NUMBER 7 SEPTEMBER 1906 BY VARIOUS The Procurer's Assistant by A.T. Heist with the progress of intellectual evolution in the individual there comes a time which marks the budding perception of those wider human relations

Yeah.

But read Emma herself, Emma Goldman.

I know that her boy, her like longtime boyfriend, Alexander Berkman, was gay as shit, bi as shit, wrote a whole book about dating other men in prison.

Yep.