Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2206

Extensive typed advertising copy for CM&A

 

 

CITADEL, MARKET and ALTAR

    By Spencer Heath

A wholly New Departure in Social Thinking —

a benignly revolutionary book

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The author of this book draws from the physical and biolog­ical sciences a single basic principle of organization.

 In the manner of these natural sciences, this author sees a like system of rational order in the voluntary co-operation of community-living men. He looks, therefore, not to the im­positions of governments but only to the natural laws that prevail in the free inter-acting of socially organized men, in which values are created by exchanging services — a form of energy exchange — whereby the life of the society is maintained.

On this basis, and against, a background of well known but heretofore neglected data on early community organization, he brings newly to light, a proprietary public authority, now dormant in our midst, having a non-coercive, value-creating and thereby wholly self-supporting mode of public administra­tion under the free–enterprise principle, and which is capa­ble of vast extension into the public domain.

In this research, our author uncovers positive societal re­sources into which he invokes the wholesome ambitions of far-visioned and profit-motivated men to carry their free-enter­prise technology of contract and voluntary exchange into the vital areas of essential and common public services and thus create therein, instead of deficits, vast new values and in­comes for themselves and for all.

This awaiting proprietary authority, this free-enterprise alternative to political administration, calls for the free organization and general public-servicing of unified commun­ity-wide properties by profit-motivated, practical men. And the author shows how this is vital for those who cherish in­dividual freedom and, as for artists and idealists, a neces­sary condition for the high realization of their dreams.

Looking far beyond all exposures of corruption and mere po­litical opposition to oppression, but with faith in a larger understanding of our non-coercive system, this book brings fully into light vast social possibilities in our but lately emerging creative capitalism. Idealistic to an extreme, (but far from proposing any government-planned Utopia), the sound­ness of its analysis is vouched by scholars, jurists, outstand­ing economists, eminent churchmen and leaders in many lines.

Like important discoveries in other fields, this re-discovery of the proprietary principle as proper to and a prime source of value in the public field (as it is in all private admin­istration) must gain sufficient public attention to induce the united private ownership of sites and lands — and therewith the public-servicing of them — on a community-wide basis; and thus redeem into solvency — and enormous profit — the present inef­ficient and even perilous conduct of our common affairs.

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