Publisher's Note

Mr. Tucker has written that ((the editor is well chosen~ and his qualificatio~s for-the job undeniable." He does~ how ever, request that the volume shall be prefaced by a state ment that he, ((while gratefully acknowledging the good will that has inspired .the. publication," has •had' no hand in the work of abridgment, and that the project has been executed without his e~press sanction or approval, although the pub.. lisher's action is ((above,reproach." In justice to Mr. Tucker, however, it should be stated that he emphatically protested against the elimination of the words of ••' his opponents .in the controversies, since he had always been scrupulously exact in presenting their ideas in full;' but the limited scope of this volume made such omission im perative. A word as to the title of this boak. Tucker's life work is devoted to the exposition of the fights of the iii iv PUBLISHER'S NOTE Individual. As a title for the journal which he used as a medium of expression for thirty years, he chose Liberty. It seems fitting that these two words, standing as they do for the highest aspirations of mankind, should be joined togethe'r in a title for'this compilation' of Tucker's libertarian and/ anarchistic te·achings.