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Educated Men - "civilized," As Fourier Used To Say With Disdain - Tremble At The Idea That Society Might Some Day Be Without Judges, Police, Or Gaolers.

While In The Course Of Ages The Nucleus Of Social Custom Inscribed In Law Has Been Subjected To But Slight And Gradual Modifications, The Other Portion Has Been Largely Developed In Directions Indicated By The Interests Of The Dominant Classes, And To The Injury Of The Classes They Oppress.

It Is Only By The Abolition Of The State, By The Conquest Of Perfect Liberty By The Individual, By Free Agreement, Association, And Absolute Free Federation That We Can Reach Communism — The Possession In Common Of Our Social Inheritance, And The Production In Common Of All Riches.

Cleverly Assorted Scraps Of Spurious Science Are Inculcated Upon The Children To Prove Necessity Of Law; Obedience To The Law Is Made A Religion; Moral Goodness And The Law Of The Masters Are Fused Into One And The Same Divinity. The Historical Hero Of The Schoolroom Is The Man Who Obeys The Law, And Defends It Against Rebels.

He Objected, Though, To Indiscriminate Reading. 'one Must Have Some Question,' He Wrote, 'addressed To The Book One Is Going To Read.