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Lewis Masquerier, “Politicology”

March 14, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

What is assembled here is two different sets of texts related to “a forthcoming work, entitled “Politicology;” a new development of Rights and Wrongs, &c., &c.,” announced in the land reform paper Young America in 1845 and then published as a 24-page separately numbered section in Sociology in 1877.

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Lewis Masquerier in “Working Man’s Advocate” and “Young America” (1844-1848)

March 12, 2020 Shawn P. Wilbur

Links: Lewis Masquerier [main page] Sociology [Reconstructed] Bibliography: Lewis Masquerier, “Declaration of Independence, of the Producing from the Non-Producing Class,” Working Man’s Advocate 1 no. 27 (September 28, 1844): 4. L. Masquerier, “To Reformers, Tenants, Anti-Renters, Squatters, And Slaves,” Young America 2 no. 16, New Series (July 12, 1845): 1. L. Masquerier, “Monopoly Of Land The Great Evil,” Young America 2 no. 17, New Series (July 19, 1845): 2. L. Masquerier, “Eras of Civilization,” Young America 2 no. 24, New Series (September 6, 1845): 1. L. L. Masquerier, “Hired Labor Maintains All Society,” Young America 2 no. 27, New Series […]

Lewis Masquerier, “Temperance” (1835/1877)

February 22, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] TEMPERANCE. No animal so much as man, Transgresses nature’s law and plan; Each brute selects its drink and food, Rejects whatever tastes not good, Without the aid, as some would say, Of reason and philosophy; While man, endowed with every kind Of sense and quality of mind, Will drink his death in every bowl Through sensual appetite’s control; Will swallow burning alcohol. And eat tobacco’s bitter gall; While some prefer themselves to choke Upon its suffocating smoke; While some think two ways not enough To use it, turn it into snuff; And had they thought […]

Lewis Masquerier’s “Sociology” Reconstructed

July 7, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Bibliography: Lewis Masquerier, “Godology.—No. 1,” Boston Investigator 39 no. 27 (November 3, 1869): 209. Lewis Masquerier, “Godology.—No. 2,” Boston Investigator 39 no. 28 (November 10, 1869): 217. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical Convention of the World’s Political and Religious Reformers. No. 2,” Boston Investigator 40 no. 29 (November 16, 1870): 1. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical Convention of the World’s Political and Religious Reformers. No. 3,” Boston Investigator 40 no. 30 (November 23, 1870): 1. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical Convention of the World’s Political and Religious Reformers. No. 4,” Boston Investigator 41 no. 9 (June 28, 1871): 1. Lewis Masquerier, “An Oecumenical […]

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 […]

Lewis Masquerier (1802–1888)

July 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Related Links: Masquerier in the “Western Examiner” (1834-1835) Masquerier in the “Boston Investigator” (1834-1888) Masquerier in “The Crisis” (1834) Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834) Masquerier in “The New Moral World” (1836–1841) Lewis Masquerier in the “Working Man’s Advocate” and “Young America” (1844-1848) Aunt Elmina visits Lewis Masquerier (1884) Sociology Reconstructed Lewis Masquerier [tag feed] Bibliography: Ann, [letter], The Boston Investigator 3 no. 7 (May 10, 1833): 1. [Ann Tabor] Palmer, “Nature and Her Laws — Necessity of Acquiring a Knowledge of Them,” Western Examiner (St. Louis) 1 no. 9 (May 1, 1834): 68-70. [note], Western Examiner (St. Louis) 1 […]

Aunt Elmina visits Lewis Masquerier (1884)

July 2, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Elmina, “To Friends,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 23 (September 17, 1884): 6. Elmina, “Greenwood Cemetery,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 24 (September 24, 1884): 1. Elmina, “Elmina Attends a Seance,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 26 (October 8, 1884): 2. Elmina, “A Clairvoyant Medium,” Boston Investigator 54 no. 26 (October 8, 1884): 2. Elmina, “Reconstruction of Society,” Boston Investigator 55 no. 4 (May 6, 1885): 1. Elmina D. Slenker, “Patience,” Boston Investigator 56 no. 24 (September 22, 1886): 2. Lewis Masquerier, “Nerves and the Nervous,” Sociology (New York: Published by the author, 1877): 1-7. [separately paginated] […]

Lewis Masquerier in “The New Moral World” (1836–1841)

July 1, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Lewis Masquerier, “Letter to Mr. Owen,” New Moral World no. 76 (April 9, 1836): 188. “Resolutions unanimously adopted by the Congress, 16th May, 1836,” New Moral World no. 82 (May 21, 1836): 236. Lewis Masquerier, “The Universal Community Society of Rational Religionists,” New Moral World 7 no. 64 (January 4, 1840): 1006-1007. Lewis Masquerier, “Progress of Social Reform,” New Moral World 2 no. 11, Third Enlarged Series (March 13, 1841): 167. “Socialism in America,” New Moral World 2 no. 12, Third Enlarged Series (March 20, 1841): 179. Lewis Masquerier, “Emigration, an Instrument of Civilization,” […]

Lewis Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834)

June 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

Dear Sir,—I have received the Free Enquirer, and herein enclose you five dollars. I betrayed great ignorance when I wrote for it, last winter, but I had then just waked in my morn of reason, from my night of superstition; and living in these frontier regions, I was not certain that there was a liberal press in the Union.

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Lewis Masquerier in “The Crisis” (1834)

June 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Lewis Masquerier, “To Robert Owen,” The Crisis, and National Co-Operative Trades’ Union Gazette 4 no. 13 (July 5, 1834): 99–100. “[Response]” The Crisis, and National Co-Operative Trades’ Union Gazette 4 no. 15 (July 19, 1834): 118. [/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”] The following letter was read by Mr. Owen in his lecture on Sunday evening, June 21, but which we had not room for last week:] To Robert Owen. Dear Sir, I am happy to inform you that I am an advocate for your social system, and can refrain no longer from the expression of […]