Note 4 — XV. THE ABSURDITIES OF ANARCHISM.

In one sense this prophesy was fulfilled; for, within a few months disorder reigned supreme among the “Associated,” who constituted themselves into rival factions, each faction in turn carrying out the Anarchist doctrine of “individual expropriation” by means of periodic raids (at dead of night) on the possessions of the opposing faction (a common occurrence among Anarchists): the whole culminating in the introduction of the police on the invitation of the Anarchists themselves!