Calvin Blanchard

Announcer Of The Religion Of Science, Professor Of Religio-Political Physics, Expositor Of The Statics And Dynamics Of God Almighty, Advocate For The Constitution Manifest In Human Nature, And Head Member Of The Society For Abolishing Utopia, And Humbug.

Blanchard was an early American popularizer of Comte's sociology, an active proponent of freethought and "free love," a bookseller and radical publisher. His criticisms of government rank him among the early North American anarchists.

Works Written by Calvin Blanchard:

The Art of Real Pleasure: That New Pleasure for which an Imperial Reward Was Offered. New York, Calvin Blanchard, 1864.
A Crisis Chapter on Government (NY: Blanchard, 1865).
The Essence of Science; or, The catechism of positive sociology, and physical mentality. By a student of Auguste Comte. New York, C. Blanchard, 1859
An Eye-Opener! A Real Liberty Song... 1862.
Life Among the Nymphs: a New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. 1867.
The Life of Thomas Paine; mover of the "Declaration of independence;" secretary of foreign affairs under the first American Congress; members of the National convention of France; author of "Common sense," "The crisis," "Rights of man," "Age of reason," &c., &c.: the man, whose motto was, "The world is my country; to do good, my religion." Embracing practical considerations on human rights; demonstrating that man tends irrepressibly to actual freedom; and showing a liberty- aim connection in the action of the world's three great author-heroes,--Rousseau, Paine, and Comte. By the author of "The religion of science." New York, 1860
The life of Thomas Paine. New York : D.M. Bennett, 1877.
A Message to "The Sovereign People" of the United States: exhibiting to their majesties the infernal treachery or worse inability of their religious counsellors, and of their political "servants," proving the identity of the theological and ethical delusions, exposing the elective franchise hoax, and revealing a new, and self-evidently efficient remedy for superstition, despotism, and evil. 1860.
Religio-political physics: or, The science and art of man's deliverance from ignorance-engendered mysticism, and its resulting theo-moral quackery and governmental brigandage. By Calvin Blanchard. New York, C. Blanchard, 1861
The religion of science: or, The art of actualizing liberty, and of perfecting and satisfactorily prolonging happiness : being a practical answer to the great question--"If you take away my religion, what will you give me in its stead?" New York : C. Blanchard, 1860

Works Published by Calvin Blanchard:

Volney, C.F. New Reasearches on Ancient History Calvin Blanchard 1860
Volney, C. F. The Ruins; or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires. To Which Is Added The Law of Nature, A Short Biographical Notice, By Count Daru, and The Controversy between Dr. Priestly and Volney. NY: Calvin Blanchard, N.D.
Basia; The Kisses of Joannes Secundus and Jean Bonnefons
Comte, Auguste. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Freely Translated and Condensed by Harriet Martineau. NY: Published by Calvin Blanchard, 1855