Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1036

Penciling in a stenographic notebook

1940?

Original -> 1035

Having the necessary inspiration, positive and constructive motivation, it is still necessary to find some method of approach employed in the natural sciences and capable of being applied in the social field. This is found in the Energy Concept of Population. This I have set out in very brief outline in mimeographed form. It has been commended by high authority as the most promising method of social analysis that has been suggested thus far. As you will observe, the qualitative aspect of social action arises directly out of a purely quantitative approach. Under the basic formula proposed it is only necessary to know the average number and the duration of the lives in a society to derive a definite coefficient for its sociological capacity.

The next step is to employ this basic method to that social institution that seems most basic to any socially organized life, namely, the institution of property in land, the desire being to ascertain in what manner this institution practices those relationships of measured cooperation and service by contract, exchange and consent by which the members can enlarge and extend each others’ lives. This analysis has been made and printed under the title, “Private Property in Land Explained.”