Rothbard was a strong critic of egalitarianism. The title essay of Rothbard's 1974 book "Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays" held: "Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences". In it, Rothbard wrote: "At the heart of the egalitarian left is the pathological belief that there is no structure of reality; that all the world is a tabula rasa that can be changed at any moment in any desired direction by the mere exercise of human will".