Ambition cannot find him. 1
Affection doesn't know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.
Yesterday, undistinguished! 5
Eminent Today
For our mutual honor, Immortality!
Affection doesn't know
How many leagues of nowhere
Lie between them now.
Yesterday, undistinguished! 5
Eminent Today
For our mutual honor, Immortality!
(F.115/J.68)
[1, 2] Ambition, Affection:: the nature of mutualism, will lose the ambition and affection; a theory close to anarchism.
[3] leagues:: unions.
[4] between them:: between mutual parties.
[5] undistinguished:: confused, not clearly discerned.
[6] Eminent:: the right of eminent domain, the power to distribute private property for public use.
[7] mutual:: a hint for mutualism.
Mutualism, as Proudhon calls it. 1. Labor . . . We wish this paper to explain the successive steps, by which in each and every branch of production, workmen and workwomen may become their own masters and mistresses, by being each others assistants. ─ The Spirit of the Age (1850)
