"Steal and murder! no! no! I will not.

But one must say everything and fully understand the history of the evil hour through which we are passing.

It is madness sweeping by; and, to tell the truth, everything necessary to provoke it has been done.

At the very dawn of the Anarchist theory, at the very first innocent actions of its partisans, there was such stern repression, the police so grossly ill-treating the poor devils that fell into its hands, that little by little came anger and rage leading to the most horrible reprisals.

It is the Terror initiated by the _bourgeois_ that has produced Anarchist savagery.