A Divine Falsehood Is More Powerful Than

Priests, Kings, Statesmen, Soldiers, Bankers And Public Functionaries Of All Sorts; Policemen, Jailers And Hangmen; Capitalists, Usurers, Businessmen And Property-owners; Lawyers, Economists And Politicians - All Of Them, Down To The Meanest Grocer, Repeat In Chorus The Words Of Voltaire, That If There Were No God It Would Be Necessary To Invent Him.

Does Man's Freedom Consist In Revolting Against All Laws? We Say No, In So Far As Laws Are Natural, Economic, And Social Laws, Not Authoritatively Imposed But Inherent In Things, In Relations, In Situations, The Natural Development Of Which Is Expressed By Those Laws. We Say Yes If They Are Political And Juridical Laws, Imposed Upon Men By Men.

We Are Materialists And Atheists, And We Glory In The Fact.

By Striving To Do The Impossible, Man Has Always Achieved What Is Possible. Those Who Have Cautiously Done No More Than They Believed Possible Have Never Taken A Single Step Forward.

The Truth Is That The Whole Life Of The Worker Is Simply A Continuous And Dismaying Succession Of Terms Of Serfdom - Voluntary From The Juridical Point Of View But Compulsory In The Economic Sense - Broken Up By Momentarily Brief Interludes Of Freedom Accompanied By Starvation; In Other Words, It Is Real Slavery.