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Title: A Vision of Anarchy
Author: Ross Winn
Date: October 13, 1895
Language: en
Topics: anarchy, introductory, Libertarian Labyrinth
Source: Retrieved on 2020-06-11 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/ross-winn-a-vision-of-anarchy-1895/

Ross Winn

A Vision of Anarchy

Anarchy: A social theory which regards the union of order with the

absence of all direct government of man by man as the political ideal;

absolute individual liberty. – Century Dictionary

Every man, they say, has a religion; my religion is Anarchism. In

contemplating the future I see it radiant with the sunlight of universal

liberty. I catch a vision of the days to come—the curtain rises upon a

grand scene; I see before me a glorious panorama. The hideous nightmare

of government—the subjection of man to man—is gone, and I hear the happy

sound of many voices of men and women singing of liberty; and mingled

with it the laughter of children. I see a grand civilization dawning

upon the world—a new heaven on a new earth, in which every man and woman

shall be a sovereign with his or her own individuality for an empire; in

which authority shall have no place, and in which national boundaries

shall be blotted from the map and the flags of all nations shall be

merged into the red emblem of universal brotherhood. I see the grim

specter of war fade forever from the scene and over all spread the white

pinions of peace. I see the jails turned into workshops, courthouses

into institutions of learning, and where once fell the awful shadow of

the gallows, I see the flowers bloom. No more is heard the wild blast of

war, and where once the earth trembled with the martial tread, I behold

the peaceful artisan at his work.

Such is the great hope, the grand ideal, the sublime dream of Anarchy.