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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 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 Science of Universology” (1877–1879) (I–XII)

November 27, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

For the merely preliminary statement of what universology is, the reader is referred to the last half of my reply to Mr. Tucker (Index August 10). That statement will enable the reader to know about the subject. But to know about a thing is one thing, and to know the thing itself is quite another thing. I am now to undertake to enable one to know universology itself in some measure,—still, however, a very primary, and incipient sense; to give to the reader that insight at least which will enable him to judge whether it is the kind of thing which it would interest him to pursue further, by the study of the more extended expositions contained in books published and to be published on the subject. I must, at the same time, however, occupy a portion of the very limited space which I feel is assigned to me, in simple declaration of the true nature and immense scope and value of the new sciento-philosophy.

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Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Baby World” (1855)

November 26, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

The big houses are going to be built. The Baby World is going to exist. The grand Domestic Revolution is going to take place. The tiny coffins will no longer be made and hid away in the dark tombs. The little gravestones will no longer be planted in the graveyards; and the voice heard in Rama, Rachel weeping for her children because they were not, will forever cease to be heard.

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Constitutions and Organic Bases of the Pantarchy and New Catholic Church (1860)

November 25, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] “Anarchist Church, Anarchist State… Anarchist Inquistion?“ “Stephen Pearl Andrews’ New Catholic Church” (1861) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Pantarchy Defined—The Word and the Thing” (1873) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “A Short Method with the Infallibility of the Pope” (1876) Stephen Pearl Andrews’ “New Rendering of Ten Commandments” “Statism: It’s not just for dentists anymore…” (1882) [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] CONSTITUTION OR ORGANIC BASIS OF THE PANTARCHY ____ ARTICLE I. The Pantarchy is a new spiritual Government for the world, including a new Church and a new State, with all other Subordinate Institutions, Educational, Informational, Honorary, etc., […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews, “The Pantarchy Defined” (1873)

April 21, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE PANTARCHY DEFINED—THE WORD AND THE THING. BY STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS. New ideas require new words: either wholly new, or old words raised and stretched to a higher and broader meaning; and the promulgator of the new thought has to choose between these two alternatives. Pantarchy is a newly-formed word; from the Greek, to denote what is sometimes called “The New,” as constrasted with “The Old,” in respect to the progress of the world’s affairs, and that to which the revolutionary events of our day are a transition and an introduction. […]

Stephen Pearl Andrews, “A Short Method with the Infallibility of the Pope” (1876)

January 20, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Debates in The Index: [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] A SHORT METHOD WITH THE INFALLIBILITY OF THE POPE. Doubtless, when the Pope is truly fulfilling his function of Supreme Pontifex, of Pontifex Maximus, he is infallible; for it is only when he makes no mistakes that he is fulfilling that function. So every other man, when doing rightly his supreme devoir, is infallible, for the same reason. It is only when a man is off the tripod that he makes mistakes, because to make mistakes is to be off the tripod. Stephen Pearl Andrews. Stephen […]

I hope this clears things up…

March 7, 2010 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Johnson’s (Revised) Universal Cyclopaedia (1886) contained the following explanation, by its creator, of the science of “universology:” Universol´ogy is the name given to a universal science covering the whole ground of philosophy, of the sciences in their general aspects—in which sense it is called “sciento-philosophy”—and of social polity, or the collective life of the human world. As a philosophy, in the more common and general or less precise use of that term, the system is called “integralism,” as that of Comte is called “positivism;” as a new science—in the exact sense […]

Anarchist Church, Anarchist State. . . Anarchist Inquisition?

January 25, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related links: The Pantarchy [main page] Constitutions and Organic Bases of the Pantarchy and New Catholic Church (1860) Stephen Pearl Andrews, “Andrusius,” The Pantarch — The history of radical reform in the United States is full of colorful characters and extravagant projects, but Andrews and his Pantarchy (complete with the philosophy of Universology, universal languages Alwato and Tīkīwā, and New Catholic Church) stands out, even in a crowd which includes Lewis Masquerier and his “compulsory homestead” scheme or Edgar Chambless’ Roadtown. In anarchist circles, Andrews is probably most respected and best remembered for his advocacy of Josiah Warren’s cost principle […]