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A Voyage from Pole to Pole by way of the Center of the Earth (1721)

July 16, 2012

An Account of a Voyage from the Arctic to the Antarctic Pole by way of the Center of the Earth. With the description of that perilous Passage, & of the marvelous & astonishing things that […]

Notes on Occupancy & Use (The Infamous Summer House Thread)

July 15, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third][/one_third][two_third_last] The question of occupancy and use is one which seems particularly difficult to address in a way which escapes a constant return to the same questions. There are certainly logical reasons for that: There […]

A couple of notes on “The Molyneux Problem”

July 8, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

Just so that it is not necessary to reconstruct this every time the question of the adequacy of Universally Preferable Behavior arises, I’ll just place these comments (originally from Reddit) here for the benefit of […]

W. M. Stannard, “Mr. Corndropper’s Hired Man” (1900)

July 8, 2012

Mr. Corndropper’s Hired Man. (A Companion to “Ely’s Automatic Housemaid.”) BY W. M. STANNARD. _____ THERE was a mild sensation at the East Slowcombe railway station when a stranger, bearing a two-gallon can, carefully crated, […]

Elizabeth W. Bellamy, “Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” (1899)

July 8, 2012

Ely’s Automatic Housemaid. BY ELIZABETH W. BELLAMY. _____ IN order for a man to have faith in such an invention, he would have to know Harrison Ely. For Harrison Ely was a genius. I had […]

The “FAQs”

July 7, 2012

One of the basic assumptions driving this blog is that we’re not really in a position for definitive answers to a lot of the most important, and most frequently asked questions about mutualism. We can […]

Mutualism at the Owenite High Tide

July 6, 2012

For a look at the concerns of the Owenite current at the moment, in the 1820s, when some members were trying on the label “mutualist” and Josiah Warren was taking the steps that would lead […]

Notes on the origins of the term “mutualism” (1822-1850)

July 6, 2012

I contributed most of the following to Wikipedia, so we can just make use of it here to get started on a bit of basic mutualist history: Mutualism, as a term, has seen a variety […]

Possible & Impossible Worlds

July 6, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

For those who enjoy early science fiction, imaginary voyages, and utopian narratives, I’m sharing some of my favorites at Possible and Impossible Worlds. I’ve been playing around with some non-political translation, including the 1721 “Account […]

Edward Page Mitchell, “The Ablest Man In The World” (1879)

July 6, 2012

The Ablest Man In The World. By Edward PageMitchell. 1879 [Originally published without attribution in the New York Sun May 4, 1879] It may or may not be remembered that in 1878 General Ignatieff […]