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Henry Edger, “Modern Times, the Labor Question and the Family” (1855)

September 19, 2019 Shawn P. Wilbur

ORDER AND PROGRESS — LIVE FOR OTHERS FAMILY—COUNTRY—HUMANITY MODERN TIMES, THE LABOR QUESTION, AND THE FAMILY. A Brief Statement of Facts and Principles. BY HENRY EDGER. Nothing can be destroyed but by being replaced. Catechism Positiviste, Préface. p. viii. NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY CALVIN BLANCHARD, 82 NASSAU-ST. MODERN TIMES Modern Times is the eccentric but by no means inappropriate name given to one of the villages or rural settlements now beginning to grow up along the line of the Long Island Railroad, once forming part of the principal highway between the cities of New York and Boston but now, […]

Josiah Warren, Positions Defined

December 10, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1third]. . .[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end] Positions Defined An impression is abroad, to some extent, that the “Equity movement” is necessarily characterized by an unusual latitude in the Marriage relations—I as one, protest against this idea. “The Sovereignty of every Individual” is as valid a warrant for retaining the present relations, as for changing them; and it is equally good for refusing to be drawn into any controversies or even conversations on the subject. I find no warrant in my “sovereignty” for invading, disturbing, or offending other people, whatever may be their sentiments or modes of life, while they act only at […]

Modern Times “card” in The Circular

June 8, 2007 Shawn P. Wilbur

[notice], The Circular, 2, 41 (April 6, 1853), 162 The Tribune of April 4th, publishes a “Card to the Public,” signed by four leading men at the ‘Modern Times’ settlement on Long Island, setting forth in brief the object of the settlement, the advantages it offers to laboring men and women, and the terms of admission. The object of the settlement is “to build a large town, or ‘Equity Village,’ upon just and reciprocal principles,” based on the philosophy of “Cost the limit of Price,’ and the ‘Sovereignty of the Individual,’ as set forth in the publications of Josiah Warren […]