And that was all; there would be no more oppressors, no more rich, no more poor; the domain of the earth with its natural treasures and its implements of labour would be restored to the people, its legitimate owners, who would know how to enjoy it with justice and logic, when nothing abnormal would impede their expansion.

And then only would the law of love make its action felt; then would human solidarity, which, among mankind, is the living form of universal attraction, acquire all its power, bringing men closer and closer together, and uniting them in one sole family.

A splendid dream it was--the noble and pure dream of absolute freedom--free man in free society.

And thither a _savant's_ superior mind was fated to come after passing on the road the many Socialist sects which one and all bore the stigma of tyranny.

And, assuredly, as thus indulged, the Anarchist idea is the loftiest, the proudest, of all ideas.