Year: 2006

Here are two more chapter froms Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894), dealing with the struggles of Toledo against the natural-gas and oil trusts. I’ll post the last two chapters from this section tomorrow. […]

Three Fables from Things as They Are (1899), by Bolton Hall Philosopher Dog. I SUPPOSE I must have been half asleep when I heard Snap whine, “Yeow arn yow ell.” It sounded like, “You aren’t […]

It’s been almost a year since I put together the bibliography of Bolton Hall’s book-length works, and now I’m finally getting the first of them online. Hall was a libertarian single-taxer and Tolstoyan, founder of […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews published one essay in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. The July, 1874 issue contained his “Revisal of Kant’s Categories,” one of the most conventional philosophical essays we have from Andrews. Andrews, whose […]

Today’s addition to the Libertarian Labyrinth is an obscure gem, The New Columbia, or, The Re-United States. It was originally published in Findlay, Ohio, by the the New Columbia Publishing Co., and written by attorney […]

William Batchelder Greene‘s theological works are almost unknown today, but they form the immediate context for his better-known works on mutual banking, which were written while he was the minister of a Unitarian church in […]

In 1877, Lewis Masquerier, aged and going blind, collected such of his newspaper articles and short essays as he felt represented, however partially, his social thought. The result was Sociology: or, The reconstruction of society, […]

I’ve been too darn busy to post much about what I’m reading these days, but I spent a delightful half-hour this afternoon drinking some good Grounds for Thought coffee and reading print-outs of a couple […]

Some men—not all men—see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, […]