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Joshua King Ingalls, “Economic Equities” (1887)

May 30, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The holiday weekend was hot as blazes here, so I hid inside quite a bit, and got a lot of work done. The first fruits of that is a pdf of Joshua King Ingalls‘ Economic […]

John A. Lant, Radical Printer and Journalist

May 25, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

I’m always interested to find radicals from the NW Ohio area. There are no shortage of interesting connections here: Lysander Spooner was involved in land speculation in what became Grand Rapids, OH, just down the […]

Calvin Blanchard, “My Undertaking and Its Auspices” (1861)

May 22, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1854, Comte’s Positive Philosophy and Feuerbach’s Essence of Christianity fell under my observation. Many years before I had read Fourier. His system, by itself, however, seemed to me to lack foundation. But Comte furnished that foundation, and Feuerbach’s demonstration of the naturalness of “supernaturalism” precluded the possibility of my coming to any other conclusion in the premises than that the religious idea was the index to, and nature’s guaranty for, that Heaven on earth, of which Fourier was the prophet, but which he, unfortunately, attempted to minutely describe at too great a distance, and thus fell into vagaries, with respect to particulars, which did much to obscure, and bring into contempt, his most profound and transcendently brilliant discoveries. […]

Henry Edger, a Positivist Priest at Modern Times

May 21, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Although the community of Modern Times was organized on Josiah Warren’s principles of “equitable commerce” and “individual sovereignty,” it was not by any means a community of anarchists. The experimental community drew a wide range […]

Samuel Hartlib on William Potter’s Land Bank

May 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

In the post Land-Banks as a substitute for Alchemy?! I mentioned a text by Samuel Hartlib, on William Potter’s land bank proposal, The Key of Wealth. The 1653 essay, An essay upon Master W. Potters […]

Proudhon’s “The Malthusians” (Benjamin Tucker translation)

May 19, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Proudhon published Les Malthusiens in Le Représentant du Peuple (August 10, 1848). It was published separately the following year. We know William B. Greene was reading in it Massachusetts in 1849-50; the section on “Usury” […]

Google Books for mutualists

May 17, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

The difficulties associated with using Google Books haven’t changed much, but the depth of the “full view” library certainly has. I had posted a few titles to the mutualists list recently, but when I looked […]

Ohio Natural Gas Wars, Conclusion

May 17, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here are two final chapters from Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Wealth Against CommonwealthXXII and chapters XXIII-XXIV. A pdf file of all five chapters is available in the Libertarian Labyrinth. For a bit more of Northwest Ohio’s […]

Ohio Natural Gas Wars, pt. 2

May 16, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

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. […]

Bolton Hall – Snap, the Philosopher Dog

May 15, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

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 […]