Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1760

Dictation notes taken by Spencer MacCallum for a letter to Thaddeus Ashby

Dear Mr. Ashby:

     I am very glad to receive your somewhat delayed reply to my letter of ___________ and follow-up of__________ .

     You inferred correctly. I did have in mind the possibility that you (or your “conscience”) might become so intrigued by the discovery that there is in Christian free enterprise a divine alternative not only to robbery and piracy but also in the making a marvelous alternative to political administration of the common and community services, namely, proprietary administration, most significantly in the field of those properties

/Here Heath left off dictating and instead talked about what he wanted to accomplish with this letter. MacCallum went on taking down what he said, more or less verbatim:/

I thought his conscience working so completely with him that he would be likely to seize enthusiastically upon the divine alternative to political administration that has been long evolving and only awaits recognition.

Had that in mind, that he might be only too happy to aid in publicizing that, whether he got my pay for it or not, but since it was not for me but for the cause of freedom, I had thought to make substantial payment for whatever he might do, either to him or to FAITH & FREEDOM, whose cause it represents.

I wouldn’t want him to write it at all unless it were something he wanted to write whether he got paid for it or not. He probably hasn’t yet grasped the full implications, but if he should do so, and developed an urge to write for it whether he got paid or not, I would be very happy to pay quite a substantial fee, especially if it should be agreeable to him to donate the fee to FAITH & FREEDOM.

I’d like to include a blurb to the effect that it was intended only as a supplementary story to go with a book-length manuscript now being set up in type by Yale University Press, in which the whole theory of Christian free enterprise as proprietary administration through the social instrument of contract is set out from the standpoint of fundamental physical science, the biological and psychological sciences, the rationale of the free market enterprise and its historic development in Anglo-Saxendom and wherever in history non-political, free communities have had opportunity to evolve.