Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2393

Letter to John W. Nason, 530 Walnut Lane, Swarthmore, Penna.

September 25, 1954

Dear Dr. Nason:

Remembering our correspondence of some years ago, it occurs to me that you might be interested in considering the fundamentals upon which all we have of modern freedom is based, and a mode of public adminis­tration alternative to the political, which is descended to us through the Normans from Rome and Babylonia.

 Of all the radical movements for the abolition of property, and thereby of the contractual relationships among men as opposed to the coercive, the long-standing propaganda against property in land is primary and fundamental to them all.

 The fallacious theories of those who would “socialize” land have been no where more convincingly set out than in Henry George’s Progress & Poverty and in the Rev, Dr. Edward McGlynn’s succinct statement of land communist theory upon which he was restored to to his priesthood after some years of bitter controversy and excommunication.

 Thinking they might be of interest and possible value to you, I am sending you, with my compliments, a booklet entitled, ” Progress & Poverty Explained and Its Fallacies  Exposed”, and a small leaflet entitled, “The Trojan Horse of ‘Land reform’”.

Very truly yours,

Enc: “Progress & Poverty Reviewed”

“The Trojan Horse of ‘Land Reform'”

SH/m