Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1650

Carbon of a letter from Heath to Leonard E. Reed, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, NY.

February 12, 1958

 

Dear Mr. Read:

     Anent yours of the third, here’s my check $15 for another year. Please send The Freeman to Dr. Crawford J. MacCallum (Nuclear Physicist), 300 Indiana Avenue, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

     I am happy to note that National Review is starting a department for the promotion of “Fabianism in Reverse” and that in your current brochure, “The Study of Freedom,” you stress the need for “basic research” and of “more understanding and better explanations”.

     For the main theme of my CM&A is the basic one of freeing creative human energy through further understanding of our market economy and of how free enterprise, under profit motivation, can, and, soon or late (according to how soon it is understood), will enter into the field of common and community-wide services and thus pull the rug from under the political administration, with its increasing domination and destruction of the public whom it is supposed to serve.

     All administration, whether private or public, is either proprietary or political, solvent or insolvent, productive or destructive. In ancient civilizations (so called), practically all property and production, especially agriculture, was under political administration (governmental domination). Modern (Western) civilization is owing to little else than “Fabianism in Reverse” — proprietary administration growing up (after the Roman One-World tyranny collapse) and founding the twelfth-century trading and thereby the fifteenth-century cultural renaissance.

     Let us have more “basic research.” For, sooner or later, we must give serious thought to this question: if we ever get government properly limited, how shall we keep it that way, unless we envision some qualitative growth or change?

                                                                                                     Cordially,

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     Practice of Christian Freedom

     Christian Doctrine of Man