Spencer Heath Archive

Item 660

Random taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath

March 12, 1956

HUMAN DEPRAVITY

Poor old Princeton has transferred the curse from the individual man in the image of God to the organization of men in creative relationships constituting the creative Kingdom of God. It therefore lends countenance to that unintellectual perversity which teaches that the productive and creative actions and relations among men are diabolical and should be destroyed by the political powers of the world. Hence its students are being taught to despise society as they were once taught to despise human nature in the individuals. The accepted textbooks naturally reflect this. (This is a kind of an apology — explanation of how they got that way.) We may suggest that the one thing needful with respect to the individual human nature is to understand it, and to understand it also in its built-in reciprocal relationships which is free enterprise.

Our free enterprise system is the genuine organizational force of mankind. They have put the curse on that just as they put it on the individual man.