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Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 6 - Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School

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Francisco Ferrar's Life Work Ped Out

Francisco ferrar did not believe in the existence of a god. Why teach the child to hate something which does not exist? Is it at all plausible that he would, in cold blood, invite his friends and colleagues to barcelona for the day on which he realized their lives would be endangered? Surely only the criminal, vicious mind of a jesuit would credit such deliberate murder. He had everything to lose and nothing to gain except ruin and disaster were he to lend assistance to the outbreak. Not that he doubted the justice of the people's wrath, but his work, his hope, his very nature was directed toward another goal. In vain are the frantic efforts of the catholic

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