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“Recollections of Six Days’ Journey in the Moon,” by an Aerio-Nautical Man (1844)

January 29, 2022 Shawn P. Wilbur
Being a devoted lover of travelling, partly on account of the agreeable dissipation of mind it produces, but more especially the dignity and consequence derived from breathing the air of foreign lands, I have been seriously aggrieved at this lamentable exhaustion of novelty, and more than once, like Alexander, sat down and wept that there were no more worlds to explore. The planets and other heavenly bodies most especially attracted my attention, and of these the Moon, which is at the bottom of so many sublunary influences, and without whose aid the adepts of Natural Philosophy would be so often at a loss to account for various phenomena, appeared to me the most interesting.

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W. B. G., “Fourierism” (1844)

December 2, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur
W. B. G., “Fourierism,” Boston Courier 20 no. 6167 (April 13, 1844): 1. We can be fairly certain that there was more than one writer using the initials W. B. G. in New England newspapers during the years we might expect to find articles by William Batchelder Greene. One was involved in a debate about railroads in Vermont—and was almost certainly not “our” W. B. G. Another wrote at least two letters to the Massachusetts Teacher and Journal of Home and School Education in 1857—and might have been. The author of two letters to the Christian Register on the subject […]
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Declaration of Independence, of the Producing from the Non-Producing Class (1844)

July 4, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Lewis Masquerier (1802–1888) Masquerier in “The Crisis” (1834) Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834) Masquerier in “The New Moral World” (1836–1841) Masquerier in the “Boston Investigator” (1835-1888) Aunt Elmina visits Lewis Masquerier (1884) Lewis Masquerier [tag feed] DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, Of the producing from the non-producing class. WRITTEN BY L. MASQUERIER. When, in the course of human events, the producers of property have been reduced to the lowest state of degradation and misery by the almost universal usurpation of all property and power by a non-producing, tyrannical, and aristocratic class, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that […]