Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1633

Carbon of a letter from Heath to Sterling Morton, Chicago, Illinois

November 5, 1957

 

 

Dear Mr. Morton:

 

     My neglect of your excellent letter of July 11^th has been due only to my extreme preoccupation with a publication setting out the principles of proprietary as opposed to political organization in public as well as private business and affairs.

 

     Your comments on my “Solution for the Suez” are among the most penetrating of any I have received. The great problem with respect to the Canal is to find means for keeping political authority entirely out of it — the same problem that confronts every legitimate business with increasing severity.

 

     I admire your analysis of the political situation. My own long-term preoccupation is with the evolution of free society through the extension of proprietary administration as the ultimate and only sound alternative to the political.

 

     Accordingly, I take great pleasure in presenting to you with my compliments an inscribed copy of my recently published Citadel, Market and Altar. I trust you will enjoy reading it and that you will be stimulated — perhaps also hopefully inspired — by some of its unusual points of view.

 

     With highest compliments,

 

                       Sincerely yours,

 

                        

                         Spencer Heath

 

SH/ams

Enc: Extracts from letters and reviews

     CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR under separate cover