What the Naturians Are, Precisely.

A CLARIFICATION

In order to respond to various criticisms, both verbal and written, we declare again that:

1. — The naturians are not anarchists if one considers their anti-scientific ideas from the point of view of the anarchist communist theory, which is duly scientific.

2. — The naturians are anarchists from the point of view of the different libertarian factions, but obviously anti-scientific anarchists.

3. — The naturians, from the political point of view, are anarchists, since they combat parliamentarianism, all legally established power and all politics, and since they accept as valid laws only the laws of nature.

4. — In addition, there are found among them — from the social point of view — revolutionaries and anti-revolutionaries.

5. — From the alimentary point of view: vegetarians and omnivores.

6. — From the anti-alcoholic and anti-tobacco point of view: the temperate and the abstinent.

7. — From the point of view of temperaments: the nomadic and the sedentary.

8. — From the spiritualist point of view — precisely because they are partisans of the natural life, all are materialists.

All other concepts not consistent — in whole or in part — with these declarations are not our concepts.

Accepting neither bias nor absolutism, we recognize, however, — and propagate on occasion — any tendency toward the Simple Life manifesting itself, from wherever and whomever it issues.

Henri Zisly.