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Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Science of Universology” (XXV–XXXVI)

December 9, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The Science of Universology appeared in 36 installments in the free religionist paper, The Index, between January 4, 1877 and June 19, 1879, following the conclusion of a debate between Andrews, Benjamin R. Tucker and William Batchelder Greene regarding Proudhon. It is essentially a third book-length examination of Andrews proposed universal science, following two volumes published in book form: The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato: The New Scientific Universal Language (1871) The Basic Outline of Universology (1872) (An early discussion of universology appeared in the Spiritual Telegraph in 1857.) Andrews’ mature projects—Universology, the Pantarchy, […]

The Shape of Anarchist History

December 9, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Retracing steps I took in my research 20-25 years ago is a fascinating and frequently rewarding experience, particularly now that I’m working with some figures who are perhaps marginal even to the rather loose, broad account of the anarchist and near-anarchist traditions that I’ve been constructing. Most recently, I’ve been working my way back through the writings of Calvin Blanchard (“Announcer of the Religion of Science, Professor of Religio-Political Physics, Expositor of the Statics and Dynamics of God Almighty, Advocate for the Constitution Manifest in Human Nature, and Head Member of the Society for Abolishing Utopia, and Humbug, and Failure,” etc.), the libertarian Comtean who, perhaps even more than Stephen Pearl Andrews, made a practice of expressing anarchistic ideas in a language far more directly suited to the promotion of regimes of authority.

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Calvin Blanchard on Art-Liberty (1860)

December 7, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Art-Liberty [category feed] “My Undertaking and its Auspices” (1861) Those Peculiar Advertisements (1864–1865) Writings in the Boston Investigator (1861–1866) “Last Words of Calvin Blanchard” (1868) “In Search of The Writings of Calvin Blanchard“ Works by Calvin Blanchard: Blanchard’s bulletin to independent thinkers [1856—] The new crisis, or, Our deliverance from priestly fraud, political charlatanry, and popular despotism, 1857. The Essence of Science; or, The catechism of positive sociology, and physical mentality. By a student of Auguste Comte. New York, C. Blanchard, 1859 The religion of science: or, The art of actualizing liberty, and of perfecting […]

Calvin Blanchard — Those Peculiar Advertisements (1859–1865)

December 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE NATION’S CRISIS!—When Grant took Richmond, recaptured the “State prison birds” that had flown, and wrote himself “Your obedient servant” to Lee, he was perfectly consistent with the masked devilishness that underlies all government. There new was and never can be punishment for being criminal, but only for not being criminal enough! CALVIN BLANCHARD, No. 30 Ann st., has written a Book, scientifically showing a new way. Price 50 cents; by mail 60 cents.

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“Last Words of Calvin Blanchard” (1868)

December 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] LAST WORDS OF CALVIN BLANCHARD. Mr. Calvin Blanchard, recently deceased, aged 60, was a remarkable man. Thirty-five years ago, when he and we were journeymen printers in this City, he was currently nicknamed “Anti-Christ” by his associates—his creed being what most of us deemed infidelity, though he gave it a different designation. He afterward became an author, bookseller and publisher, giving currency to many works which were condemned as immoral as well as irreligious, though no one who knew him could doubt that he thought them otherwise. Dying, he left the […]

Calvin Blanchard, “Astonishing Disclosures! Hell on Earth!” (1860)

December 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] ASTOUNDING DISCLOSURES!! Hell on Earth! Murder, Rape, Robbery, Swindling and Forgery Covertly Organized! Cannibalism Made Dainty! AN EXPOSITION OF THE INFERNAL MACHINATIONS AND HORRIBLE ATROCITIES OF WHITED SEPULCHERISM; TOGETHER WITH A SURE PLAN FOR ITS SPEEDY OVERTHROW. BY THE AUTHOR OF “THE RELIGION OF SCIENCE,” “THE ESSENCE OF SCIENCE,” AND “THE NEW CRISIS.” PUBLISHED BY CALVIN BLANCHARD, ___ 1860. ARGUMENT. I. Supernatural foolery, the foundation of legal and political humbug; whence result human degradation and misery. II. The cunning hypocrisy and treachery of theologians, and the covert scoundrelism of law-mongers and […]

William B. Greene, Foreign Correspondence (1854–1855)

November 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Do what you will, the crater of the revolutionary volcano is bound to be reopened. England must revolutionise Hungary, and put the nationalities of southern Europe once more upon their feet. The triumph of democracy is approaching. England and France have not two armies to lose, while Russia can have one army after another annihilated without feeling her energies exhausted. In Finland, Poland, Italy, Hungary, there and there only—with the assistance of certain populations of Asia—can the immense masses be found which are required for the adequate opposition of Russia.

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The Pantarchy

November 29, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Stephen Pearl Andrews in the Journal of the American Temperance Union (1837–1838) Andrews & Wendell Phillips, [Debate on Abolition and Disunion] (1847) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “Equitable Commerce” (N. Y. Tribune, 1850) [in progress] Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Baby World” (1855) Constitutions and Organic Bases of the Pantarchy and New Catholic Church (1860) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Pantarchy Defined—The Word and the Thing” (1873) Andrews, Benj. R. Tucker & William B. Greene, [Debate regarding Proudhon in The Index] (1876) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Labor Dollar” (1877) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Science of Universology” (1877–1879) (I–XII) (XIII–XXIV) […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Science of Universology” (XIII–XXIV)

November 29, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] The Science of Universology appeared in 36 installments in the free religionist paper, The Index, between January 4, 1877 and June 19, 1879, following the conclusion of a debate between Andrews, Benjamin R. Tucker and William Batchelder Greene regarding Proudhon. It is essentially a third book-length examination of Andrews proposed universal science, following two volumes published in book form: The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato: The New Scientific Universal Language (1871) The Basic Outline of Universology (1872) (An early discussion of universology appeared in the Spiritual Telegraph in 1857.) Andrews’ mature projects—Universology, the Pantarchy, […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Labor Dollar” (1877)

November 27, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

As the labor question is steadily and rapidly increasing in recognized importance, every effort should be made to place its “social solutions” upon a thoroughly scientific basis. One of these “solutions” relates specially to the true and ultimate system of currency. I have just received from some unknown friend, probably the author, a small pamphlet entitled “The Labor Question: what it is, method of its solution, and remedy for its evils,” by Charles Thomas Fowler.

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