Principal tendencies of “l’Unique” and of the “Individualistes of its style”

The sovereignty of the individual as fundamental principle every demand of the social order. – Denial of the utility of the intervention of the State or of the interference of any governmental institution in the relations or agreements between reasonable individuals. – Development of the critical spirit and of initiative in individual education. – Life as will and responsibility. – Violence (dominism, imposition, exploitation, etc.), brutality, use of physical force or of arms, etc. as source of the evils that overwhelm the individual. – Reciprocity as ethic of sociability. – Elimination of suffering in relations conditioned by friendship and camaraderie. – Fidelity to the given word and to the clauses of freely consented agreements, and this in all domains. – Voluntary and contractual associationism, cooperatives and mutualism in all the branches of human activity, but guaranty for the isolated of evolution outside of the group or of every organization. – Liberation from prejudices regarding race, external appearance, inequality of the sexes, social condition, age, etc. – Personal life as a work of art. – Non-encroachment on the sphere of activity of others as the limit of the expansion of the personality. – Reasoned Eugenicism and thoughtful Naturism. – Complete sexual education, but combat against prostitution and pornography in all their forms, and denunciation of the woman considered only as a “prey,” a simple “physiological necessity” or “chair à plaisir.” – Self-mastery, but not renunciation of the joy of living. – Presentism as antidote against the chimeras of Messianism, future-societyism, etc. – Refusal of dogma, revealed or inspired, religious or social. – Repudiation of occultism, of the supernatural, etc. – Benevolence, sensitivity, the spirit of understanding and conciliation, the fight against the “tant pis pour toi” [hard luck] factors of internal vitality. – Practice of “first putting one’s own house in order” before concerning oneself with the affairs of others. – Interest in the free milieus, individualist villages, libertarian schools. – Families by choice, pluralism of affections and friendships, exclusive of preferences and privileges. – Understanding with regard to the non-conformist, the exceptional, the irregular, etc. – In the case of special attention in any sense, it undeniably works in favor of those who have endured more on account of the diffusion or realization of one or the other, or several of the tendencies mentioned above. – Possibility of the realization, or at least partial realization, of the constructive parts of this account through the action of the persevering will. – Etc., etc.