Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2075

A printed and signed announcement/invitation on Heath’s letterhead to a discussion meeting at Butler Hall, Apartment 9F, Morningside Drive at 119th Street, New York City, April 6, 1938. Included is a separate, printed card with a list of subjects on one side and on the other a paragraph, “The Central Thought” and a paragraph about Heath’s qualifications.

April 2, 1938

 

 

Dear Friend,

 

A small company will gather with me at Butler Hall, Apt. 9F, next Wednesday evening at eight (April 6^th) to discuss:

 

DEMOCRACY IN COMMUNITY LIFE

    and how It can be advanced.

A definite conception of the democratic principle that struggles for free expression in individual and community affairs will be presented upon the basis of facts and experiences of which we all have common knowledge — without statistics or inconclusive theories.

 It is the firm intention that every person attending shall “get somewhere” in his thinking and take away with him some illuminating conception of the simple but universal principles upon which the social organization rests and its growth and development depends.

 

 I am looking forward with pleasure to your joining us, either alone or perhaps with a friend or two who would be interested.

 

Sincerely yours,

 

 

/s/ Spencer Heath

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUBJECTS

The Method of Nature in Creation — Quantity, Variety, Beauty.

Society the Crown of Creation — The Emerging Science.

The Basic Social Process — Creation by Exchange of Services.

Governmental Disemployment of Capital and of Men — Monopoly, Speculation, Collapse, De­pression.

The Structure of Social Sovereignty — Proprietors and Public Servants.

The Place and Function of Democracy as a Social Technique.

Can Government Become the Servant and the Savior of Society?

Religion and the Aesthetic Arts — Inspiration to Create or Impulsion to Destroy.

Can the Democratic Technique Realize the Aristocratic Ideal?

Creative Spiritual Life — An Emergence upon Social Organization.

*Topic for Next Meeting.

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The Central Thought is: All Structures — Cosmic, Social, Psychic — are in process of change, both integ­rative and destructive. Life, Growth, Evolution are integrative change. Only integrative activities main­tain the life and growth of society. The two types of action, social and anti-social, are sharply distinguished and defined, and the form and functions of society towards which creative change leads are clearly pointed out. Social growth and improvement, even where great changes are involved, is shown to be immediately prof­itable and advantageous to all concerned and not in­imical to any class or group. Mr. Heath lays emphasis on aesthetic inspiration as the necessary motivation and thus shows the authentic function of religion and the arts as agencies of inspiration towards all creative ac­tion and social growth. Lastly, an adequate social or­ganization is seen as the supreme environment for spiritual growth and individual self-realization.

 

 As a natural student and investigator, Mr. Heath possesses a rich and varied background of science and philosophy from which he projects a penetrating an­alysis of the structure and normal processes of society as the reference basis for understanding and avoiding its present maladjustments. He is no idle theorist, having spent much of his life in active business and professional pursuits. The operation of creative prin­ciples is described in the simple language of daily life and by illustrations drawn from the most obvious facts of business experience and ordinary affairs.

 

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 Mr. Heath is available for formal or informal dis­cussion with educational, professional and business organizations and other groups who are interested in creative social change. Apply Master Institute.