Chapter IV: Part III: The Relation of Anarchism to Science and Politics

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VII. ANARCHISM AND SOCIOLOGY: HERBERT SPENCER 245

Spencer's Views on the Organisation of Society -- Society
Conceived from the Nominalist and Realist Standpoint -- The
Idealism of Anarchists -- Spencer's Work: _From Freedom to
Restraint_.

VIII. THE SPREAD OF ANARCHISM IN EUROPE 260

First Period (1867-1880): The Peace and Freedom League -- The
Democratic Alliance and the Jurassic Bund -- Union with and
Separation from the "International" -- The Rising at Lyons --
Congress at Lausanne -- The Members of the Alliance in Italy,
Spain, and Belgium -- Second Period (from 1880): The German
Socialist Law -- Johann Most -- The London Congress -- French
Anarchism since 1880 -- Anarchism in Switzerland -- The
Geneva Congress -- Anarchism in Germany and Austria -- Joseph
Penkert -- Anarchism in Belgium and England -- Organisation
of the Spanish Anarchists -- Italy -- Character of Modern
Anarchism -- The Group -- Numerical Strength of the Anarchism
of Action.

IX. CONCLUDING REMARKS 304

Legislation against Anarchists -- Anarchism and Crime --
Tolerance towards Anarchist Theory -- Suppression of
Anarchist Crime -- Conclusion.

PART I

EARLY ANARCHISM

"A hundred fanatics are found to support a theological or
metaphysical statement, but not one for a geometric theorem."
CESARE LOMBROSO.