Month: May 2006

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 very well. ” Strange! I listened again. However, I am fond of Snap, and sometimes talk to him. So I said: “No, I’m not well. Monopole is after the rent of the farm, and I haven’t got the money.”“Rent?” said Snap, quite distinctly. “What’s rent?”“Why,” said I, “it’s what we pay to be allowed to live on any part of the earth that’s good for […]

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 Free Acres, and a prime mover in the “enclave” movement within Georgeism. (Just in case you missed it the first time, don’t miss: Bolton Hall, single tax anarchist – the song!) I’ll be posting a couple of teasers from Things as They Are (1st ed., 1899), the volume I’m currently editing for the Labyrinth. Like a number of Hall’s works, the volume is split between […]

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 interest in linguistics eventually led him to work on Alwato, a “universal language,” approaches Kant’s categories through grammar. Though it is, in itself, a fairly straightforward essay, its broader context includes Andrews’ Discoveries in Chinese (available from Elibron), the works on Universology (text scanning in progress), and, generally, the work by Charles Kraitsir, Alexander Bryan Johnson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and others to discover a scientific, […]