Spencer Heath Archive

Item 504..

Statement of Purposes of The Science of Society Foundation, superseded by revision dated August 28, 1960, in Item 3103 after the Foundation failed to get tax exempt status.

 THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY FOUNDATION

An educational and Research organization dedicated to a wider and deeper understanding of the voluntary institutions of mankind

 

/The Purposes of the Science of Society Foundation/ are both very narrow and very broad, in that they exclude everything that is fundamentally coercive or political while including practically everything that springs spontaneously out of such measures of freedom as the human spirit has achieved.¹⁶²⁰/

    Statement of Purposes

1. To publicize and promote the natural sciences in their understandings of the objective subject matter of human experience, with particular reference to the Unitary or Quantum Principle at the foundation of physical science, and to the Energy Concept of Population, in analogy therewith, as the basis for an objective Science of Society.
2. To promote knowledge and understanding, and thereby extension and develop­ment, of the existing system of property, contract and free enterprise in all its aspects and implications, and particularly as set out, with respect to its ancient and historic origins, in the writings of Sir Henry Sumner Maine; with respect to its present operation, in Human Action and other writings by Dr. Ludwig von Mises; and with reference to its origins, present operation and future development, in Citadel, Market and Altar – Emerg­ing Society and other writings by Spencer Heath, a founder of this Corporation.

3. To promote study and understanding of the natural or common law of Society — of the evolving alternatives to political laws, adjudications and enforcements — in its historic origins and developments such as the English common law and the law merchant, in its continuing development by virtue of its practical social expediency, and in its capability of self-enforcement by reason of its general acceptance, historically and presently, including judicial recognition, favor and encouragement.
4. To encourage knowledge and understanding of the contractual free relationship, its origin and development by means of private, non-political property, and, especially, under the modern institution of private prop­erty in land as the present, freely-recom­pensed social agency for the contractual and rational transfers of jurisdiction over sites and resources; and to promote knowledge of the practical potentialities of this non-politi­cal social institution, through organizing itself voluntarily in public corporate form, to become the prime administrative agency for the wholesome performance of commun­ity services in general — extension of the Free-Enterprise Principle of owner-administration into the community affairs for profit (as is all productive administration), a self-sustain­ing and value-creating alternative to polit­ical administration.
5. To conduct and promote research into the fundamentals of the developing societal organization and its autonomous mode of operation whereby it is maintained and advanced, in the light of what has become verified and well known concerning growth, development and functioning in those lesser organisms and organizational forms, organic and inorganic, that constitute the living and the non-living world — the manner of the interfunctioning among their units and parts, and the over-all powers and functions that they thereby achieve and perform.
6. To promote and publicize the religious and philosophic, the social and economic implications of the positive divine command to engage in free contractual relationships — serving others in the same manner that one would be served — in fulfillment of the Hebraic tradition of freedom and fullness through obedience to divine law; and to promote, with a fitting reverence, the Christian ideal conception of the society of men engaged in voluntary, mutual service, as the visible embodiment of the living spirit of the living Christ, advancing into ever higher modes and conditions of living, and thereby towards eternal life through increasing length of days.

VII.  To inspire ever increasing recognition of the cosmic process evolving into ever more enduring modes and forms of organization, organic and inorganic, social and indi­vidual; to promote quantitative and thereby rational and communicable knowledge and understanding of the growing order and beauty in the ever more enduring modes of life and living forms, social as well as in­dividual; and to encourage high allegiance to the truth and beauty of all things that inspire, and thereby to advance the joyous putting forth and exercising of creative power.

VIII.  To elaborate and carry out the foregoing purposes, especially among philosophical, scientific, religious, educational and business organizations, by means of the writ­ten and the spoken word, by publications, seminars, group discussions, essay contests, and through scholarships, donations, pro­jects and aids looking to the same or similar ends.

IX.  To engage in such other related relig­ious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes as the trustees shall from time to time determine.

 

X.  The Corporation shall not advocate, aid or encourage any resort to or employment of force (unless against aggressors), nor shall it in any man­ner either advocate or oppose any existing or proposed legislation, national, state or local, nor shall it assist in any political campaign or propaganda on behalf of or against any candidate for election or appointment to public office.

 

 No money of the Corporation shall be expended otherwise than pursuant to its purposes as set out herein and numbered one to ten. Nothing shall be done by the Corporation or any of its officers or members in connection with the above ten pur­poses, or any one of them, that is contrary to or in any manner inconsistent with any one of them. And nothing shall be done pursuant to purposes numbered six and seven, or either of them, that is not also in pursuance of one or more of purposes numbered one to five, inclusive.