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Ernest Cœurderoy, Letter on the amnesty of August 1859

May 23, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

I declare that I have never accepted the amnesty that affects me. The motives for my resolution of the sort that every man with a heart will understand, and that it would be too long to outline in a journal. I reserve, moreover, the option of making them known when the time seems more opportune to me, and in the form that I judge best.

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Calvin Blanchard, “The Essence of Science” (1859)

January 25, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] THE ESSENCE OF SCIENCE OR, THE CATECHISM OF POSITIVE SOCIOLOGY AND PHYSICAL MENTALITY BY A Student of Auguste Comte. 1859 PRELIMINARY. We must accept the whole of Science, or we may as well refuse it altogether. Piecemeal, it can have no living existence; and, therefore, can yield us no benefits. Its rightful domain extends through all, from lowest to highest. To exclude science from Sociology—Government—Religion; from the highest of which we are capable of conceiving, is to deprive it of its head; and man, of all which can render life worth […]

Proclamations for 1859

January 14, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

EMPEROR NORTON PROJECT: September 17, 1859 Have We an Emperor among us? The world is full of queer people. This forenoon, a well-dressed and serious-looking man entered our office and quietly left the following document, which he respectfully requested we would examine and insert in the Bulletin. Promising him to look at it, he politely retired, without saying anything further. Here is the paper: At the peremtory request of a large majority of the citizens of these United States, I, Joshua Norton, formerly of Algoa Bay, Cape of Good Hope, and now for the past nine years and […]