Two of the hard-to-find pamphlets by Joshua King Ingalls have surfaced among the items digitized by the Labadie Collection staff. The Unrevealed Religion is listed in their index of titles, but the pamphlet scanned also includes Social Industry, the Sole Source of Increase, which was issued as an introduction to Ingalls’ columns in Fair Play. I had read The Unrevealed Religion, but had not attempted to transcribe the faint, brittle interlibrary loan copy I had access to. The faintness of the scans suggests the difficulties involved. But access to this electronic version means I can get that transcription done at my leisure, without jeopardizing the integrity of any rarities. Slowly, but surely, all of Ingalls’ work is surfacing.
Anarchism
J. K. Ingalls, Books—Their Sphere and Influence
Here’s another nice piece by J. K. Ingalls. It originally appeared in the Spirit of the Age, probably in 1850, and was reprinted in the Liberator, April 16, 1852. BOOKS—THEIR SPHERE AND INFLUENCE Joshua King […]
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J. K. Ingalls, Photography (1850)
PHOTOGRAPHYJoshua King Ingalls [American People’s Journal of Science, Literature, and Art, January 1850, p. 42.] THE employment of light as an agent in copying, or drawing, was suggested as early as the commencement of the […]
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Joshua King Ingalls in “The Shekinah” (1852–1853)
Through long, long ages has labor sighed and toiled under a worse than Egyptian bondage. Its utmost stretch of memory can scarce recall its pastoral days, when it frolicked and gamboled with the herd upon the plain or mountain side. Enslaved by the gold of civilization, which itself has mined and coined, it is no less oppresssed in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, than it was in the days of ancient barbarism, or more recent feudalism. Nor has it scarce other hope than the oppressed Hebrew felt, when his demand for freedom was met by an increase of task, while at the same time he was compelled to furnish his own material. […]