Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2249

Working outline for eight chapters of a book, presumably Citadel, Market and Altar, typed in two columns but here transcribed in one.

1930s or early 1940s

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

 

Science defined.

 

Pure and applied science.

 

The three standard units.

Repetitions of relationships — natural laws.

“Social science” no science.

Life-year the unit of the subject-matter of a

Science of Society.

 

CHAPTER 2

DELIMITATION OF FIELD

  AND METHOD

 

Societal field defined.

 

Terms of the analysis.

Analysis and synthesis of the Societal life-form.

Practical application of a science of society.

Potential scope of the application.

THE ENERGY CONCEPT OF POPULATION

A First Step in Social Analysis.

                  

CHAPTER 3

Energy the fundamental of existence.

Structures one aspect of energy.

Life an energy flow.

Number, movement and duration of its units

Life — energy — composed of three factors,

structure or mass, movement or velocity,

length of days — duration.

Population, society, a complex life-form —

integration of mass, velocity and duration.

Population as energy — data not complete

without mass, velocity and duration.

 

Mass and motion per average unit subject to

little change.

 

Effects of changing the average duration.

 

ND represents population energy per gen­eration.

Number and duration dependent variables.

Average energy charge varies directly with

duration, inversely with the number of units.

Units times duration represents total en­ergy in

life-years.

Example of total energy per an assumed average life

• described in kilowatt-hours.

Energy rate per average individual assumed constant,

number and duration variable.

Qualitative changes not dependent on any

over-all quantitative change.

Society a reproductive organism.

Total energy ND. Frequency 1/D.

Population energy transformed by frequency changes.

Frequency changes cannot be quantitative; must

be qualitative.

Qualitative changes effected by social and

environmental changes.

Qualitative change, the field of the ap­plied

science of society.

 

Population energy basically the same as the

universal energy.

Population as a stream of energy.

Units of high energy capacity discharge energy

and change environment.

 

Low-energy units take on energy and are

changed by environment.

Qualitative capacity arises out of internal

quantitative change.

 

Positively qualitative energy is creative power.

Basic unity of science with philosophy and religion.

 

CHAPTER 4

Population energy modifies environment.

Negative modification by crudely organ­ized population

shortens life-span.

Compensation by accelerated reproductivity.

Positive modification of environment by better organized population length­ens lives.

Compensation by diminished reproductivity.

Positive modification of environment in­vites new cosmic

energy into the organic, human and social forms.

The earth becoming more organic and alive.

 

Qualitative comparisons of population must be based on a constant quantity of energy. This makes N and D dependent variables.

The generations of men a succession of energy waves.

Changes in the life-span are changes in the wave-length,

transformations of the energy current.

Mathematical investigation possible.

Changes of wave-length or frequency are within the energy

itself; not dependent on any over-all quantitative change.

Population of long wave and low replace­ment frequency

effects positive qualita­tive changes on environment and

upon it­self.

Contrast in potentialities of populations having long-span

and short-span lives.

 

Collisions and conflicts shorten lives.

 

Contractual relationships lengthen lives.

 

The transition from conflict to contract is qualitative.

 

Reproductivity inverse to longevity.

 

Contrast in potentialities of populations having long-span

and short-span lives.

 

Potentiality of a population depends upon extension of

life-years beyond maturity.

Plant and animal world generally subservi­ent to environment.

Pressure of life generally deteriorates environment.

 

Man, in society, alone dominant and cre­ative over environment.

 

CHAPTER 5

 

From atoms to stars, the duration of the structure or system

depends on free rela­tionships without collision.

Among men a similar rule prevails; the dur­ation of

civilizations and of lives depends on the free relationships.

The determinant is the free relationship; not the motivation.

Results and effects not influenced by good or evil intentions.

Decline of reproductivity with increase of life-span is wholly

eugenic.

When adverse conditions shorten lives and reproductivity

increases, this also is eu­genic. Gives a wider numerical base

for the occurrence of favorable variations.

Declining reproductivity under shortened span would lead to

quick extinction.

When social organization extends life, re­productivity declines.

Free relationships extend lives; compulsive ones shorten them.

Inverse correlation of life-span and repro­ductivity throughout

nature.

Conservation of energy in the organic and social world.

Relationship between frequency and duration of life restated

with illustrations.

Growth and death are only transformations of and within the

universal energy.

 

 

CHAPTER 6

 

Population as wave-energy.

In any transformation of population energy without change

in the amount, numbers and duration must inversely change.

No accurate data on the mass and motion components of

individuals or of a popula­tion.

But average mass-motion is substantially constant.

Numbers, N, expresses the mass-motion content of a population.

 

ND represents the total population energy per generation or wave.

An individual changes but little in his mass or motion.

— An average individual.

But the successive generations of a popula­tion are variable

as to their mass and mo­tion (N) and especially as to their

dura­tion.

The preceding paragraphs refer only to quantities of energy.

Qualitative, creative, energy is dependent on mature life-years.

A population may decline 50% in numbers, with corresponding

increase of span, yet increase three-fold its qualitative power.

And the qualitative power of the average individual will increase six-fold.

The individual is not sacrificed to but is served by the society.

Explanation of the formulations set up on page 33c.

 

CHAPTER 7

 

A century of lengthening life in the Western World.

Extension of free contractual relations.

Coincident rise in productivity and in the level of subsistence.

Conquest of disease.

Concurrent rise in numbers and in length of the life-span.

 

Recent reverse influences.

 

Cessation of immigration.

 

Declining reproductivity.

 

Differential birth rate.

 

Dire predictions.

High reproductive rate of the least intelligent, with

high infant mortality.

 

General decline in reproductivity, with greater adult

longevity.

Ageing of the population is not any pro­longation of senility.

The real distribution of the increased longevity.

CHAPTER 8

A century of democracy.

 

The democracy of the market.

The Nineteenth Century expansion of ex­changes the basis

of its lengthening life-­span.

The creation of values and security of invested savings.

Less governmental restraints.

Wider area of contractual engagements.

 

The basic technique of economic democracy.

The general function of the market.

The market the foundation of social free­dom and progress.

Credit and speculation in their social and functional aspect.

Credit as a charge or potential demand against the general market. — Social credit.

Credit as a future charge against a partic­ular person.

• Individual credit.

Credit an aid to speculative enterprises.

“Pure” speculation neither destroys nor consumes any wealth.

 

CHAPTER 9