equitable commerce
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equitable commerce
Josiah Warren, “On Education and Re-Education” (1865)
The grand secret of Education is to make the learner feel an interest in the thing to be learned. The founders of the prevailing systems not knowing any other way of interesting children in their studies, have sought to create an interest by the hope of factitious rewards and the fear of punishments; the one intending to stimulate a blind self-conceit, and the other destroying all self-respect, both of which may be equally fatal in after life.
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George Warren, “Songs sung at the celebration of Paine’s birth day, in New Harmony Jan. 19, 1839”
Related Links: A Documentary History of the Movement for Equitable Commerce Digitized at Library of Commerce SONGS, sung at the celebration of Paine’s birth day, in New Harmony Jan. 19, 1839. THERE’S NOTHING LIKE TRUTH. ‘Mid fables and fallacies, baubles of youth Be it ever so simple there’s nothing like truth: A charm from the scene seems to hallow the mind, Which seeks through all nature its beauties to find. Truth, truth, simple truth, There’s nothing like truth—there’s nothing like truth A stranger to truth, fancies puzzle the brain, O give me contentment with nature again; The sure life’s enjoyments, […]
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Josiah Warren, “Response to the Call of the National Labor Union” (1871)
This is a very small and very simply thing to the eye; but, considered as a new element in human affairs, no mind can measure its magnitude.
We are on the same road will all the old countries.—The French have arrived at the precipice a little before us; but this is all the difference between us, unless we strike out a new path, and introduce New Financial Elements:— ☞ We have no time to lose!!
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The Boston House of Equity and A. B. Keith
The Boston House of Equity was one of a number of commercial establishment organized on in the wake of Josiah Warren’s lectures on equitable commerce. It’s eventual failure to succeed in the same way as Warren’s own experiments may have been at least partially the result of the character of its proprietor, Amos B. Keith. The clippings here are simply what I have uncovered of the story so far and shouldn’t be taken as in any sense definitive. Clippings: Boston House of Equity. The unoccupied portions of Gray’s buildings, on the Chickering estate, have been leased to the Boston House […]
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E. D. Linton, “Political Platform for the Coming Party” (1871)
E. D. Linton, Political platform for the coming party, Boston : [s.n.], 1871. William West and E. D. Linton, “Political platform for the coming party,” Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly 4 no. 9(January 13, 1872): 3-4. “Edward D. Linton,” The Index 8 no. 400 (August 23, 1877): 403. This text, issued as an anonymous pamphlet, is sometimes attributed to Josiah Warren himself, but seems to have been the work of his friend Edward D. Linton, a social reformer of some significance himself. I’ve appended an short biographical notice of Linton from The Index. A Documentary History of the Movement for Equitable […]
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Henry Edger, “Modern Times, the Labor Question and the Family” (1855)
ORDER AND PROGRESS — LIVE FOR OTHERS FAMILY—COUNTRY—HUMANITY MODERN TIMES, THE LABOR QUESTION, AND THE FAMILY. A Brief Statement of Facts and Principles. BY HENRY EDGER. Nothing can be destroyed but by being replaced. Catechism Positiviste, Préface. p. viii. NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY CALVIN BLANCHARD, 82 NASSAU-ST. MODERN TIMES Modern Times is the eccentric but by no means inappropriate name given to one of the villages or rural settlements now beginning to grow up along the line of the Long Island Railroad, once forming part of the principal highway between the cities of New York and Boston but now, […]
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A Counsellor (Josiah Warren), “Modern Government and its True Mission” (1862)
The “United States” are no longer united —“The union” is broken — The great “American experiment” is checked and we have silently drifted under military despotism! and, instead of being a “self governing” people, every one’s person and property are at the mercy or discretion of five or six military commanders—no two of whom can reasonably be expected to have the same settled policy or any policy founded on any principle or generally understood and accepted basis; and “security of person and property” (the professed object of all governments) is annihilated, and confusion and violence already reign supreme in the land proclaimed to be the lead of the political world!
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Josiah Warren, “Social Experiment” (1831)
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. I have never inserted a Communication in this paper, which I believe will be perused with more interest by many of its readers, than the following. As the facts came under our friend’s observation, not mine, I shall add no opinion or deductions of my own, for each reader can make these for himself. I content myself with saying; that our friends may implicitly depend on the accuracy of Josiah Warren’s information; for he is a strictly attentive observer and an honest man. I need not tell him, that his letters will always […]
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Josiah Warren’s 1821 lamp patent
Josiah Warren, of Cincinnati, is the patentee of a lamp on a new plan, which is said, to a single family, will produce an annual saving of 20 dollars. Its light is clear and pleasant, and the volume of flame equal to that of two common candles. ⁂ “Weekly Summary,” The Plough Boy, and Journal of the Board of Agriculture 2 no. 52 (May 26, 1821): 415. Warren, Josiah on February 20, 1821 #X003303 improvement in lamps for burning fat Cincinnati, OH (These patents were apparently destroyed in a fire at the U.S. Patent office in 1836, so images […]