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Charles T. Fowler, “Prohibition” (1885)

December 31, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Now no one disputes the evil of intemperance, suppose we call it the greatest of evils. If government can or ought to suppress the greatest, then it should try its hand at the next in importance. If two pigs are tearing up the sward in your yard is there any reason why, while driving out the one that weighs one hundred pounds, you should leave the other, which counts ninety and nine? That would be a discrimination only against one pound of rooting!

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Clarence Lee Swartz, “The Practicability of Mutualism” (1926)

December 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Mutualism is applicable to every human relations. Throughout the whole gamut of existence, from birth to death, mutuality—voluntary association for reciprocal action—is everywhere and at every moment waiting to solve every problem of social intercourse, to decide every issue that arises in commerce and industry. In order to practice mutualism, it is necessary to name only two conditions; that the non-invasive individual shall not be coerced, and that no part of the product of any one’s labor shall be taken from him without his consent. With those negative generalizations thus postulated, thereby affirming the sovereignty of the individual, therefrom flows naturally the positive and constructive corollary—reciprocity; which implies individual initiative, free contract, and voluntary association.

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John Beverley Robinson in “The Michigan Daily” (1916–1918)

December 27, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] “Engineering News,’” The Michigan Daily 27 no. 35 (November 11, 1916): 4. Tom P. Knockafellow, “Let’s Be a Soldier Boy?” The Michigan Daily 27 no. 93 (February 17, 1917): 5. […]

Max Nettlau in “Liberty”

December 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Benjamin R. Tucker, “The Literature of Anarchism,” Liberty 13 no. 3 (May, 1897): 4. Benjamin R. Tucker, “On Picket Duty,” Liberty 15 no. 1 (February, 1906): 11. Max Nettlau, “Anarchism […]

John Beverley Robinson, “The Economics of Liberty” (1916)

December 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] While this text is fairly widely available online, some key tables, which were folded in the back of the volume, are not. I do have a copy of the original […]

John Beverley Robinson in “The Architectural Record” (1896–1899)

December 25, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] John Beverley Robinson, “Authority in Architectural Design,” Architectural Record 6 no. 1 (July-September, 1896): 71-76. John Beverley Robinson, “Modern Vault Construction,” Architectural Record 6 no. 4 (April-June, 1897): 447-459. John […]