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Terrence, “A Short Introduction to the Works of Charles Fourier” (1848)

July 24, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKS OF CHARLES FOURIER. BY TERENCE ————————————————- “In Nature and in State, it is easier to change many things than one.” BACON.—Essay on Health. “Entertain variety of delights rather […]

Jenny d’Hericourt, “Woman’s Rights in France” (1869)

July 22, 2012

WOMAN’S RIGHTS IN FRANCE LETTER FROM MADAME JENNY P. D’HERICOURT Dear Agitator: I will give you a page of history as an answer to a translation on Women’s Rights in Europe, accepted in the Revolution. […]

Han Ryner, “The Paradox” (1913)

July 21, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

ORIGINAL THE PARADOX By Han Ryner I know a country in which the inhabitants are always clothed. Beside the woman in labor, the priest and magistrate wait and, as soon as the child appears, seizing […]

Han Ryner, “The Secret of Don Juan” (1915)

July 20, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

[I’m working my way through the translation of six shorts stories by Han Ryner, published in French in The Smart Set between July 1913 and January 1920. These initial translation are definitely rough, “working” versions, […]

Han Ryner, “The Little Exile” (1920)

July 19, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

ORIGINAL The Little Exile By Han Ryner On this heavy, stormy summer Sunday, how did I let myself be led to these noisy celebrations? Under a scorching sun, that my companions declared “almost southern,” I […]

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 […]