Joshua King Ingalls

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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 […]
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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 […]
Joshua King Ingalls

Joshua King Ingalls (1816 – 1898)

January 12, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] J. K. Ingalls: …among the Universalists (1840–1847) …in “The Univercœlum” (1847–1849) …in “The Spirit of the Age” (1849–1850) Mutualist Townships: Brisbane and Ingalls (1849–1850) …in “The Shekinah” (1852–1853) …in “The Journal of Progress” (1853) Psychometrical Portrait of Joshua King Ingalls (1853) S. B. Brittan, “J. K. Ingalls” (1873) …in “Liberty” (1882–1896) …in “The Woman’s Tribune” (1888–1894) …, “Reminiscences of an Octogenarian” (1897) A Joshua King Ingalls miscellany Architectural glass patents of Ingalls and Hyatt [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] Chronological Bibliography – Joshua King Ingalls Joshua King Ingalls, “A Sermon, Delivered in the Universalist Church, […]
The Sex Question

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 […]
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Joshua King Ingalls, “Memory and Compensation” (1853)

September 29, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur
  MEMORY AND COMPENSATION. BY J. K. INGALLS. How simple and how mysterious, how pleasing yet how awful, is this attribute of mind! A distinctive trait in man, its incipient manifestations are seen in all animate and even inanimate forms. In all nature it would seem, indeed, that man was the only thing which does not remember and conform to the great laws of being. The attachments and antipathies, the attractions and repulsions, are, from age to age, and from period to period, transmitted through all forms and kingdoms. The alkali and acid, though separated for centuries, forget not that […]
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Psychometrical Portrait of Joshua King Ingalls (1853)

September 29, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] PSYCHOMETRICAL PORTRAIT. Given from impressions received while holding a sealed letter against her forehead. BY MRS. J. R. METTLER. J. K. Ingalls. This writer possesses a noble heart and mind; the character is open and revealed. By every expression and action this man will indicate something of the nobleness of his nature. Those who have known him long and intimately have found him a true man and faithful friend. He is extremely conscientious, has a great veneration for truth and goodness, and is never so happy as when the words […]
The Sex Question

Joshua King Ingalls in “The Woman’s Tribune” (1888–1894)

June 28, 2012
[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Joshua King Ingalls (1816 – 1898) [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] An Open Letter. Away out in Idaho a fellow-traveler asked the writer the meaning of her badge, and when told he replied: “Oh, I thought it meant that you belong to the party that want to put God in the Constitution.” This is but an illustration of a wide spread fear engendered by terms used by the W. C. T. U. at their conventions. And because this fear, or vague sentiment exaggerated and embodied by prejudice into a tangible danger, does exist, the Tribune […]
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A Joshua King Ingalls update

April 25, 2011 Shawn P. Wilbur
Last week, a colleague provided me with copies of Josiah Warren’s articles “To the Friends of the Social System,” which appeared in the Western Tiller, and that put me back into bibliographic mode, since the Warren/equitable commerce bibliography has been hovering somewhere just short of publishable for a long time now—and those essays filled a major hole in my research. I should be able to say more about the content of those articles, and the status of the bibliography, later in the week. But diving back into the Warren project naturally also means reopening my on again, off again work […]
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…or is there?

December 15, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur
Well, it appears that the class action suit against Google Books is being resolved, and Google feels free to make some texts available that it has been sitting on for years. Among those newly available files are an incomplete run of The Univercoelum and Spiritual Philosopher (1848-49), one of the periodicals that merged to form The Spirit of the Age, an important part of the literature of mutualism. Joshua King Ingalls was among the contributors to The Univercoelum, and the available issues contain a number of previously hard-to-access articles, and information about several more. It’s certainly not every day that […]
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J. K. Ingalls, “Social Wealth”

February 19, 2008 Shawn P. Wilbur
At long last, Joshua King Ingalls’ Social Wealth, is available online, in a (largely) searchable pdf edition. (The text will follow soon.) At 320 pages, the file is a little over 16 megs, but well worth the time to download and read through. Let me know if you have any problems with the file. I’m still experimenting with adding searchable texts to files, while maintaining broad compatibility. I’m slowly, but surely working my way through the Liberty archive, making those files as searchable as the rough image scans will allow. (For now, check out the issues from volumes 12 and […]