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Jenny P. d’Héricourt, “Philosophical Letters on Tolerance and the Critique of Hypotheses” (1863-64)

February 14, 2024 Shawn P. Wilbur

Lettres philosophiques sur la tolérance et la critique des hypothèses. (Première lettre.) Si quelque honorable du sexe barbu a surpris la suscription de la lettre que je reçois de vous, chère Madame, il n’a pas manqué de se dire in petto: Une Genevoise demandant à une Parisienne: Quelle couleur sera réputée de bon goût cet hiver? Quelle sera la forme la plus élégante des manteaux? Les crinolines conserveront-elles l’envergure qui a rendu nécessaire la presque démolition de Paris et l’élargissement de ses rues, élargissement si peu pittoresque et qui doit, un jour ou l’autre, multiplier les oculistes en multipliant les […]

Félix Frenay, “The Law” (1864) (FR/EN)

November 6, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is truly interesting to observe that over the course of the centuries that history allows us to nous survey, the human mind, in its slow, but continual march, while undermining institutions, beliefs and prejudices, while attacking all the abominations, has always made one exception. Indeed, when all the religions have fallen or totter on their foundations, one alone will remain upright and solid… and that is the law.

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Bakunin to Proudhon, November 11, 1864

June 22, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

November 11, Paris My dear Proudhon – I have just arrived in Paris and I will remain here only a very few days. You friend, and now mine also, Felix Delhasse has given me your address at Passy. I would like to come there to see you. But knowing that you are ill, I did not want to risk the journey before being sure that you would be in a state to receive me. So please inform me or have me informed in a few words, if I should come or not. Address your response to me in a double […]

Joshua King Ingalls, “The Home: Woman its True Owner” (1864)

September 30, 2012

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0″] [Joshua King Ingalls was best known as a land-reformer, but he was also involved with the struggle for women’s rights, and some of his most interesting writing happened when the two concerns came together. This essay, from The Friend of Progress, features that combination of concerns, and comes to a fascinating conclusion. Like many feminists of his day, including many of the most militant women, Ingalls associated women with the home and with nature (what he calls “the passive element”), and his argument here rises directly from that association. But while we might not think […]