#TORRENT SHADE WRATH OF ANGELS FULL#

#TORRENT SHADE WRATH OF ANGELS FULL#

The life she leads is rich in color, full of change and variety. It is difficult for the average man to form an adequate conception what strength, energy, and perseverance are necessary to absorb the unfamiliar language, habits, and customs of a new country, without the loss of oneвЂ™s own personality.Д®mma Goldman is one of the few who, while thoroughly preserving their individuality, have become an important factor in the social and intellectual atmosphere of America. But very few have succeeded in preserving their European education and culture while at the same time assimilating themselves with American life. They have at all times held aloft the banner of liberty, thus impregnating the social vitality of the Nation. The seed disseminated by them, though so little understood at the time, has brought a rich harvest. The debt American intellectual growth owes to the revolutionary exiles has never been fully appreciated. Her energy in the furtherance of such an unpopular idea as Anarchism, her deep earnestness, her courage and abilities, find growing understanding and admiration. The mist in which the name of Emma Goldman has so long been enveloped is gradually beginning to dissipate. That is the tragedy of the person prominent in the public eye. Even his most intimate friends rarely understand how solitary and deserted he feels. Thus it happens that the agitator stands quite alone in the midst of the multitude surrounding him. The representative of a revolutionizing idea stands between two fires: on the one hand, the persecution of the existing powers which hold him responsible for all acts resulting from social conditions and, on the other, the lack of understanding on the part of his own followers who often judge all his activity from a narrow standpoint. It requires an inflexible will and tremendous enthusiasm not to lose, under such conditions, all faith in the Cause. Envy, sometimes growing to hatred, vanity and jealousy, obstruct his way and fill his heart with sadness. Nay, even his comrades in the struggle - indeed, too often his most intimate friends - show but little understanding for the personality of the pioneer. The powers of darkness and injustice exert all their might lest a ray of sunshine enter his cheerless life. The path of the propagandist of social justice is strewn with thorns.

Posterity assigns to men like Wendel Phillips and Lloyd Garrison the proper niche of honor in the temple of human emancipation but it is the duty of their contemporaries to bring them due recognition and appreciation while they live. Is it of any avail that a former president of a republic pays homage at Osawatomie to the memory of John Brown? Or that the president of another republic participates in the unveiling of a statue in honor of Pierre Proudhon, and holds up his life to the French nation as a model worthy of enthusiastic emulation? Of what avail is all this when, at the same time, the living John Browns and Proudhons are being crucified? The honor and glory of a Mary Wollstonecraft or of a Louise Michel are not enhanced by the City Fathers of London or Paris naming a street after them - the living generation should be concerned with doing justice to the living Mary Wollstonecrafts and Louise Michels. There is but little consolation in the fact that almost every representative of a new idea has had to struggle and suffer under similar difficulties.

The sensational press has surrounded her name with so much misrepresentation and slander, it would seem almost a miracle that, in spite of this web of calumny, the truth breaks through and a better appreciation of this much maligned idealist begins to manifest itself. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown. Persons to pursue such a profession must beДifferent from those of trade, deeper than pride,ДЄmong the men and women prominent in the public life of America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. May work with the industry of a slave and die with Propagandism is not, as some suppose, a вЂњtrade,вЂќД«ecause nobody will follow a вЂњtradeвЂќ at which you

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