{"product_id":"2940016094199","title":"Mother Earth, Vol. 1","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                         PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMother Earth    E. GOLDMAN and M. BAGINSKI                  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Song of the Storm-Finch    MAXIM GORKY                  4\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObservations and Comments                                   5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Tragedy of Women's Emancipation    E. GOLDMAN           9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTry Love    GRACE POTTER                                   18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout Government    MAX BAGINSKI                         20\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVive Le Roi    FRANCES WAULS BJORKMAN                      27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReflections of a Rich Man                                  28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComstockery    JOHN R. CORYELL                             30\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon Quixote and Hamlet    TURGENIEFF                       40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the Banks of Acheron    EDWIN BJORKMAN                  42\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British Elections and the Labor Parties    H. KELLY    44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd You?    BOLTON HALL                                    48\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNational Atavism    INTERNATIONALIST                       49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMine Owners' Revenge    M. B.                              56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternational Review                                       58\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Notes                                             61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdvertisements                                             63\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10c. A COPY    $1.00 PER YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMother Earth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEMMA GOLDMAN, PUBLISHER\u003cbr\u003eP. O. BOX MADISON SQ. STATION, N. Y. CITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVol. I       MARCH, 1906       No. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Illustration]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMOTHER EARTH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere was a time when men imagined the Earth as the center of the\u003cbr\u003euniverse. The stars, large and small, they believed were created merely\u003cbr\u003efor their delectation. It was their vain conception that a supreme\u003cbr\u003ebeing, weary of solitude, had manufactured a giant toy and put them into\u003cbr\u003epossession of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen, however, the human mind was illumined by the torch-light of\u003cbr\u003escience, it came to understand that the Earth was but one of a myriad of\u003cbr\u003estars floating in infinite space, a mere speck of dust.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMan issued from the womb of Mother Earth, but he knew it not, nor\u003cbr\u003erecognized her, to whom he owed his life. In his egotism he sought an\u003cbr\u003eexplanation of himself in the infinite, and out of his efforts there\u003cbr\u003earose the dreary doctrine that he was not related to the Earth, that she\u003cbr\u003ewas but a temporary resting place for his scornful feet and that she\u003cbr\u003eheld nothing for him but temptation to degrade himself. Interpreters and\u003cbr\u003eprophets of the infinite sprang into being, creating the \"Great Beyond\"\u003cbr\u003eand proclaiming Heaven and Hell, between which stood the poor, trembling\u003cbr\u003ehuman being, tormented by that priest-born monster, Conscience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this frightful scheme, gods and devils waged eternal war against\u003cbr\u003eeach other with wretched man as the prize of victory; and the priest,\u003cbr\u003eself-constituted interpreter of the will of the gods, stood in front of\u003cbr\u003ethe only refuge from harm and demanded as the price of entrance that\u003cbr\u003eignorance, that asceticism, that self-abnegation which could but end in\u003cbr\u003ethe complete subjugation of man to superstition. He was taught that\u003cbr\u003eHeaven, the refuge, was the very antithesis of Earth, which was the\u003cbr\u003esource of sin. To gain for himself a seat in Heaven, man devastated the\u003cbr\u003eEarth. Yet she renewed herself, the good mother, and came again each\u003cbr\u003eSpring, radiant with youthful beauty, beckoning her children to come to\u003cbr\u003eher bosom and partake of her bounty. But ever the air grew thick with\u003cbr\u003emephitic darkness, ever a hollow voice was heard calling: \"Touch not the\u003cbr\u003ebeautiful form of the sorceress; she leads to sin!\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167805096176,"sku":"2940016094199","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016094199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}