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December 20, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

Leonard D. Abbott, “Some Reminiscences of Ernest Crosby,” — 1, no. 12 (February 1907): 22-27. Leonard D. Abbott, “A Few Words about Ferdinand Earle,” — 2, no. 8 (October 1907): 344-347. Leonard D. Abbott, “An Impression of Maxim Gorky,” — 3, no. 1 (March 1908): 32-34. Leonard D. Abbott, J. William Lloyd and His Message, — 3, no. 10, p. 350. Leonard D. Abbott, Fornaro and His Book, — 4, no. 10, p. 158. Leonard D. Abbott, The Continuing American Interest in Francisco Ferrer, — 5, no. 4, p. 143. Leonard D. Abbott, The Idea of Libertarian Education, — 6, […]

Henri Rochefort and Claude Pelletier in New York, 1874

December 17, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

–> ARRIVAL OF ROCHEFORT. A LECTURE IN PLACE OF A BANQUET—HIS PLANS. Henri Rochefort arrived in New-York at 7 p. m. on Saturday by the Hudson River Railroad, with Thomas Pain, a French political prisoner, who had escaped with him from New-Caledonia, end Ollivier Benedic, a French acquaintance whom he bad met at Sydney, New-South Wales. On reaching the Grand Central Hotel he took supper with his friends. After breakfasting yesterday he visited a photographer by invitation, and remained at the rooms until 4 p. m. This engagement caused him to miss an appointment with a committee of the French […]

Proudhon’s “Celebration of Sunday,” and other works-in-progress

December 10, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

You can see parts of three ongoing projects, as they appear, over on From the Libertarian Library. The most interesting is probably Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s The Celebration of Sunday, the book he wrote just before What is Property? It’s a very interesting read, with something to tell us about a number of aspects of Proudhon’s thought, and it’s something I’ve been puttering away at for several months. I have posted a translation of the first quarter of the book, which is relatively short, and expect to have the second major section, which takes us up to about the halfway point, typed […]

P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday — I

December 9, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE CELEBRATION OF SUNDAY [continued] I It is rare that a law can be well understood and appreciated at its true value, if we limit ourselves to considering it separately, and independent of the system to which it is linked: that is a principle of legislative critique which no one contests, and suffers hardly any exceptions. How is it that this rule has been so badly followed with regard to the laws of Moses, that no one has yet thought to present them in their totality? I would not exempt from this criticism even Mr. Pastoret himself, whose work on […]

P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday (continued)

December 9, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE CELEBRATION OF SUNDAY [Continued from Preface] _____ “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. “Six days shall thou labor, and do all thy work. “But the seventh day is the rest of the Lord: in it thou shall not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: That is why the Eternal has hallowed and blessed the […]

P.-J. Proudhon, The Celebration of Sunday — Preface

December 9, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE CELEBRATION OF SUNDAY ______ PREFACE The celebrated Sir Francis Bacon was called the reformer of human reason for having replaced the syllogism with observation in the natural sciences; the philosophers, following his example, teach today that philosophy is a collection of observations and facts. But, certain thinkers have said to them, if truth and certainty exist in philosophy, they must also exist in the realm of politics: thus, there is a social science responsive to evidence, which is consequently the object of demonstration, not of art or authority, not, that is, of arbitrary will. This conclusion, so profound in […]

The Exploits of Ravachol (in progress)

November 29, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE EXPLOITS OF RAVACHOL The Man with the Dynamite PART ONE THE CRIME OF CHAMBLES I THE INN OF THE GROTTO In these Exploits of Ravachol, the Man with the Dynamite, we will not write a novel, but a history. Why would we take the trouble to invent, when it is enough for us, in order to make the most riveting, original and dramatic narrative that could be imagined, to let speak only the facts, so strange and so striking, the completely unknown facts that we are going to make known,—and to simply recount the life of the man who, […]

Paul Brown, Gray Light, V-VIII (1825-1827)

November 24, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

GRAY LIGHT By “$” [Paul Brown] (From The New-Harmony Gazette, Dec. 21, 1825-Jan. 10, 1827) [Continued] GRAY LIGHT—No. V. Any irregularity of the passions is moral evil. According to movements of the passions, the outward actions are shaped. All excess of passion is moral evil. Any of the passions being in excess or attached to an improper object, is moral evil, because the passions, generally, have more or less of voluntary motion in them. Any thing undue, irregular, excessive, of this kind, immediately causes pain. Also these things constitute a predisposition to evil actions. Consecutive to our emotions, we act. […]

Paul Brown, Gray Light, I-IV (1825-1826)

November 23, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

GRAY LIGHT By “$” [Paul Brown] (From The New-Harmony Gazette, Dec. 21, 1825-Jan. 10, 1827) For the New-Harmony Gazette. GRAY LIGHT.—NO. I. The inception and first instance of any mode, when not immediately perceived, is not an object of intuition or demonstrative knowledge. Such as that of the commencing of a customary way of subsisting, among the individuals of a race of animals with whatever degree of intelligence endued, must be abstracted to the most general sense, before it can be an object of assurance. To go to particulars, as of time, words, &c., is to carry the subject into […]

The Impact of the Cost Principle (and Archive Upgrades, VII)

November 17, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur

It’s been sort of a hard week to stay on task, with constant new developments in the Occupy movement and multiple live streams to follow. I’ve also been approached, out of the blue, to collaborate on a Charles Fourier translation that sounds like enough fun to shuffle some things to make room for it in my workflow. As it happens, more of a focus on Fourier will undoubtedly help with projects like Dejacque’s Humanisphere and Proudhon’s Creation of Order, so I’m grateful for the distraction. And work on the archive is still moving right along. I’m at about 525 COinS-equipped […]