Month: August 2006

The Special Collections Library at University of Michigan has been digitizing pamphlets from the Labadie Collection for a web archive. There are currently 226 pamphlets online, and it’s a very nice selection of things, including some individualist classics like Stephen Pearl Andrews’ The Labor Dollar, Henry Bool’s Apology for his Jeffersonian Anarchism and his Liberty Luminants, and John Badcock’s When Love Is Liberty and Nature Law. There are multiple editions of some texts, such as Badcock’s Slaves to Duty. The archive is in the familiar Making of America format, so you’ll have to page through things. Plain text is available, […]

The most recent additions to the archive are Herman Kuehn’s The Problem of Worry (1901), a very interesting 20th century follow-up to William B. Greene’s mutual banking works, and an 1898 English translation of Jean-Marie Guyau’s A Sketch of Morality Independent of Obligation and Sanction (Esquisse d’une morale sans obligation, ni sanction, 1885). I’ll treat both of these figures in more depth soon…