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To my mind, the very assumption of “natural rights” is at war with evolution.

— Dyer Lum The Fiction of Natural Rights (1890)

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Established order, being an instituted fixity, excludes reform, and whoever advocates change by that very act becomes an enemy to it.

Why I Am a Social Revolutionist (1890)

Events are the true schoolmasters.

Is not the whole long career of the proletariat but the “Martyrdom of Man” strewn with whitened bones, cemented with scalding tears welling up from broken hearts, and stained with the bleeding feet of countless millions?

Why I Am a Social Revolutionist (1890)

Precisely as water flows to a level when obstructions are removed, just so will social relations flow to equitable conditions when restrictions are swept away. And precisely also as liberty comes in does the assertion of “rights” go out.

The Fiction of Natural Rights (1890)

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