74. Literature on the Woman Question

Individualistic anarchism occurs in every man who thinks in terms of the modern view of nature - and thinks consistently. This view of nature shows us the development of humans from lower organisms in a purely natural way. This development cannot be completed today. It must continue. Just as in the lower organisms lay the forces that led them up to man, so in man lie the forces for further development. Everything we do to force man into a predetermined order hinders this further development. Anyone who establishes a state or social order can only do so on the basis of previous development. But if you establish a certain order of human coexistence on the basis of this past development, you are restricting the future through the past. We have no way of knowing what germs of development are still hidden in man for further development. That is why we cannot establish an order in which man should develop. He must have complete freedom to develop everything that germinates within him. The order he needs will then always arise of its own accord from this freedom. This is the reason why the journal of individualist anarchism, "Liberty", published in America and founded by one of the best men of liberty, bears the motto: Freedom is not the daughter, but the mother of order.