# Anarchism is not enough

Author: Riding, Laura, 1901-1991

Genre: Literature -- History and criticism

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78380

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Anarchism+is+not+enough+Riding&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

When the baby is born there is no place to put it: it is born, it will in time die, therefore there is no sense in enlarging the world by so many miles and minutes for its accommodation. A temporary scaffolding is set up for it, an altar to ephemerality--a permanent altar to ephemerality. This altar is the Myth. The object of the Myth is to give happiness: to help the baby pretend that what is ephemeral is permanent. It does not matter if in the course of time he discovers that all is ephemeral: so long as he can go on pretending that it is permanent he is happy.

## Chapters

- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/anarchism-is-not-enough-78380/chapters/13/index.md)