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Joshua King Ingalls in “The Spirit of the Age” (1849–1850)

October 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Joshua King Ingalls among the Universalists (1840–1847) Joshua King Ingalls in “The Univercœlum” (1847–1849) Psychometrical Portrait of Joshua King Ingalls (1853) Joshua King Ingalls in “The Woman’s Tribune” (1888–1894) J. K. Ingalls, “Reminiscences of an Octogenarian” (1897) [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Creed “We believe and therefore speak.”—Paul. How is it that faith has come to signify a lack of faith?—a creed itself, to mean no creed; but simply a long transmitted heir loom, or rather the woof of words, which are lifeless and empty? The original credo was indicative of what I believe; but […]

Dyer D. Lum in “The Evolution” (1877–1878)

September 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] ORDER AND PROGRESS. Now that the majesty of the law has been vindicated, proprietary rights protected, and “order reigns in Warsaw,” it is quite in the line of duty to indulge in reflections on the anomalous state of affairs through which we have recently passed. I would at the outset insist most strenuously upon the proposition that society involves reciprocal relations. The modern or scientific conception of society is no longer that of a mere aggregation of individuals, who, by their legislation, determine the nature and character of the community, but […]

Dyer D. Lum, “The Two Paths” (1890)

September 24, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE TWO PATHS. BY DYER D. LUM. Progress has no meaning outside of social relations. Nature records but changes in terms of evolution or devolution; man’s adaptation to environments is physical. Progress is the record of change in social relations — a province wrested from nature, transforming brute into human. The veneering may be thin on some, but the thickness of the human laying over the brute is the expression of progress. Our ancestors were retrospective; our golden age lies before us. When the ancient Hebrew asked the angel why the […]

Joshua King Ingalls among the Universalists (1840–1847)

August 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [IN-PROGRESS] For the early reformers who would eventually find their way in the anarchistic camp, the path was often long and winding. For Joshua King Ingalls, the journey brought him into contact with nearly all of the reform movements of his era, but the beginning stages were in the Universalist milieu, where he began to develop his ideas about reform—and where he met the group of like-minded reformers with whom he would collaborate through much of his career. These pages will collect information about Ingalls’ career as a universalist minister, along with the sermons, speeches […]

Joshua King Ingalls in “The Univercœlum” (1847–1849)

August 13, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] ☞ An interesting article, entitled “A Religion of Progress,” from J. K. Ingalls, (one of the editors of this paper) is in type, but is unavoidably, with several other articles, crowded out. It will be given in our next number. ⁂ Univercœlum and Spiritual Philosopher 1 no. 1 (December 4, 1847): 16. A RELIGION OF PROGRESS. “Reform, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”—Jesus. Like all earthly forms, establishments of religion are subject to constant change; and their number and variances should be accounted for, upon the ground of a gradual development of the […]

Maria L. Varney in “The Herald of Truth” (1847–1848)

July 3, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″] Thomas & Maria L. Varney, “Equitable Commerce” (1846) Maria L. Varney, “Social Relations,” Herald of Truth 1 no. 2 (February, 1847): 123–125. Maria L. Varney, “Social Relations,” Herald of Truth 1 no. 3 (March, 1847): 219–223. Maria L. Varney, “The Language of Nature,” Herald of Truth 1 no. 4 (April, 1847): 306–309. Maria L. Varney, “Letters from the Queen City,” Herald of Truth 2 no. 1 (July, 1847): 81–87. Maria L. Varney, “Letters from the Queen City—No. 2,” Herald of Truth 2 no. 4 (October, 1847): 231–237. Maria L. Varney, “Letters from the Queen City—No. […]

Aunt Elmina visits Lewis Masquerier (1884)

July 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Elmina, “To Friends,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 23 (September 17, 1884): 6. Elmina, “Greenwood Cemetery,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 24 (September 24, 1884): 1. Elmina, “Elmina Attends a Seance,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 26 (October 8, 1884): 2. Elmina, “A Clairvoyant Medium,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 26 (October 8, 1884): 2. Elmina, “Reconstruction of Society,” Boston Investigator 55 no. 4 (May 6, 1885): 1. Elmina D. Slenker, “Patience,” Boston Investigator 56 no. 24 (September 22, 1886): 2. Lewis Masquerier, “Nerves and the Nervous,” Sociology (New York: Published by the author, 1877): 1-7. [separately paginated] […]

Lewis Masquerier in “The New Moral World” (1836–1841)

July 1, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Lewis Masquerier, “Letter to Mr. Owen,” New Moral World no. 76 (April 9, 1836): 188. “Resolutions unanimously adopted by the Congress, 16th May, 1836,” New Moral World no. 82 (May 21, 1836): 236. Lewis Masquerier, “The Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists,” New Moral World 7 no. 64 (January 4, 1840): 1006-1007. Lewis Masquerier, “Progress of Social Reform,” New Moral World 2 no. 11, Third Enlarged Series (March 13, 1841): 167. “Socialism in America,” New Moral World 2 no. 12, Third Enlarged Series (March 20, 1841): 179. Lewis Masquerier, “Emigration, an Instrument of Civilization,” […]

Lewis Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834)

June 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Dear Sir,—I have received the Free Enquirer, and herein enclose you five dollars. I betrayed great ignorance when I wrote for it, last winter, but I had then just waked in my morn of reason, from my night of superstition; and living in these frontier regions, I was not certain that there was a liberal press in the Union.

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Lewis Masquerier in “The Crisis” (1834)

June 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Lewis Masquerier, “To Robert Owen,” The Crisis, and National Co-Operative Trades’ Union Gazette 4 no. 13 (July 5, 1834): 99–100. “[Response]” The Crisis, and National Co-Operative Trades’ Union Gazette 4 no. 15 (July 19, 1834): 118. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The following letter was read by Mr. Owen in his lecture on Sunday evening, June 21, but which we had not room for last week:] To Robert Owen. Dear Sir, I am happy to inform you that I am an advocate for your social system, and can refrain no longer from the expression of […]