"I remember a man whom I knew when I was young, who was small, anaemic, and timid, but used to proclaim himself an anarchist. He never realised that his whole existence depended upon police protection, or that in a world without government he would be robbed of all his possessions and left to starve."
Mortals and Others

January 1, 1970

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"Back to Nature?" (30 April 1934), p. 287

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