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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 […]

Calvin Blanchard, “A Crisis Chapter on Government” (1865)

August 29, 2016 Shawn P. Wilbur

Governments are triumphant monopolies of murder, robbery, swindling and all that is atrocious and detestable. Ever since the beginning, they have forced mankind to kill or prepare and hold themselves in readiness to kill each other by the thousands and even millions at a time, and by the cruelest and most destructive means that spite can devise.

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A Calvin Blanchard Miscellany

December 7, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Bits and pieces, in preparation for a web-page update: Biographical sketch of Calvin Blanchard’s brother, Rufus Blanchard (1821-1904) [An entertaining snippet] Should Blanchard† publish First Principles—and it is far from impossible (I prevented him from publishing Social Statics)—it would not only ruin the whole subscription project, but, by mingling your name with the gang of obscene, prurient, and scoffing authors whom he patronizes and advertises, would make it embarrassing for others. † Calvin Blanchard, a disreputable publisher who kept a shop on Nassau Street, where you could buy any kind of […]

Calvin Blanchard, “My Undertaking and Its Auspices” (1861)

May 22, 2006 Shawn P. Wilbur

In 1854, Comte’s Positive Philosophy and Feuerbach’s Essence of Christianity fell under my observation. Many years before I had read Fourier. His system, by itself, however, seemed to me to lack foundation. But Comte furnished that foundation, and Feuerbach’s demonstration of the naturalness of “supernaturalism” precluded the possibility of my coming to any other conclusion in the premises than that the religious idea was the index to, and nature’s guaranty for, that Heaven on earth, of which Fourier was the prophet, but which he, unfortunately, attempted to minutely describe at too great a distance, and thus fell into vagaries, with respect to particulars, which did much to obscure, and bring into contempt, his most profound and transcendently brilliant discoveries.

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