Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2869

Carbon of letter to William C. Mullendore, 337 South Lorraine, Los Angeles, California

No date

Dear Mr. Mullendore:

From time to time I have taken note of your contri­butions to various publications with the thought that I would sometime like to acknowledge to you the pleasure and benefit I have derived from them.

 I recall in particular your timely article, “Educa­tion and Community Life”, in the April FREEMAN, by which I was greatly impressed. I trust that in the coming year the public will have the benefit of much more from your pen. Considering the flood of red and near red propaganda, there is certainly much need. Especially, in addition to a mere resistance to the undermining of freedom by proli­feration of government, I feel that we must seek fuller understanding of our free-enterprise system as an ideology that is on the march towards a genuine Utopian goal.

 Capitalism is not a finished product. Historically, free enterprise has only just begun — the beginning of a long delayed fulfillment of the Palestinian vision of abundant life and length of days. When we catch the vision of what freedom has in store, then we as well as the communists will have our transcendent goal, a vision that will be realized because implemented by freedom and thus sanctioned in the Divine.

 In my recently published CITADEL, MARKET AND ALTAR, copy of which I was happy to present to you some time ago, I hope I have laid some rational foundation for an apprecia­tion of the spiritual and artistic implications of the libertarian philosophy. I hope you have found in it some inspiration and encouragement with respect to the positive social resources that are ready at hand as an alternative to mere  political reform. The enclosed printed material indi­cates some of the cordial response this point of view has so far evoked.

 You, Mr. Mullendore, have made important contributions on behalf of freedom. I look forward to some day being able to make your acquaintance.

SH/m/Encls.                      Sincerely yours,