ABSTRACT
Liberty's editorial stance was based on two principles that constituted a "plumb-line" by which individualist anarchism would be measured, and by which all other reform schemes would be criticized. The basis of anarchist society was to be the sovereign individual who would recognize that her own liberty could not be absolute, but had to be limited by an equal amount of liberty for other individuals. From 1882 and 1885, fit into a period when Liberty's theoretical articles evinced a broad view of anarchism, the first portraying anarchism as the logical conclusion of consent theories, and the second embracing elements of more collectivistic anarchism. The general method of determining these is to apply some theory of ethics involving a basis of moral obligation. In this method the Anarchists have no confidence. Anarchism is not intended as an attack upon the social principle, but upon governmentalism.
