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Samuel Leavitt, Anti-Malthus I (1880)

March 22, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the first of two parts, originally published in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, Aug 1880. Vol. 71, Iss. 2, p. 72-76. The author, Samuel Leavitt, was an associate of Joshua King […]

J. William Lloyd, “The World’s Future—A Prophecy” (1882)

March 22, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE WORLD’S FUTURE—A PROPHECY. I BELIEVE that a time is approaching when terrestrial nature, at least, will be in almost complete subjection to mankind. Man will […]

J. K. Ingalls – Relations, Existing and Natural

March 18, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Progress! I’ve been working on my scanning process, and have managed to nearly double my speed with a new approach to the OCR work. This should mean, in the long run, much better progress over […]

Mini-Canon Assignment: How-To posts

March 18, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Here’s an archive of the “how-to” posts for the Mini-Canon assignment, from a previous semester:] We want to keep focused on the realm of “great ideas,” even while we research stuff that more specifically interesting […]

possible scanning breakthough

March 16, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

This project is always slowed down by my desire to make much of the pertinent original material available as I comment on it. Working from microfiche originals makes this process somewhat cumbersome, expensive and time-consuming. […]

Pierre Leroux, The Nature of Man

March 13, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

William B. Greene’s two early works on mutualism are very similar, to the point of repeating some sections, but the differences are also telling. Greene was attempting to combine elements of the thought of Pierre-Joseph […]

Fragments of Proudhon on Property and Liberty

March 12, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Some Proudhonian fragments, recently translated:The phrase “la propriété, c’est la liberté” appears in the Memoirs of a Revolutionist (1867, Lacroix, p.128) and in the posthumous Théorie de la propriété, (1867, Lacroix, p. 183) where Proudhon […]

One mystery of mutualism solved—probably…

March 11, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[Originally posted in discussion on Wikipedia.] Swartz’ reference to John Gray in What Is Mutualism? is puzzling. He says mutualism “seems to have been first used by John Gray, an English writer, in 1832,” but […]

Joshua King Ingalls, “Property and Its Rights”

March 11, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Here’s the third installment in J. K. Ingalls’ series on property and rights, from The Spirit of the Age. Notice that Ingalls had by this time already encountered Edward Kellogg’s work. He had, in fact, […]

Joshua King Ingalls, “Man and His Rights”

March 10, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

This is the second installment of J. K. Ingalls’ series on the “natural rights of man.” In it, we find the general plan that unites the majority of Ingalls’ contributions to The Spirit of the […]