Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1074

Mimeographed announcement of talks at the Roerich Museum Apartments,

310 Riverside Drive, New York

 

TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

 

Social Change and Growth and the Individual Life

from the Standpoint of a Dynamic Liberalism

 

1.  Society as a Super-Organism — An Emergence of Life from the Animal Level of Action to the Human or Capital Economy.
2. The Sovereignty of a Society — How it is Exercised and Apportioned over its Territory: Jurisdiction by Officers and Proprietors.
3. Government as an Organ or Agent of Society for the Performance of Public Services — The Creative Side of Government.
4. The Economic Functions of Society — Mutual Exchange of Services. Capital the Instruments of and Vehicle for Conveying Services. Credit and Banking Functions Essential to Production and Keeping Accounts.
5. Speculative Enterprise — Pursuit of Vision. The Highest Type of Productive Activity.
6. Restrictionism and its Bitter Fruits — Disemployment. Monopolies. Ultimate Scarcity of Consumers’ Goods. Price Inflation. Speculation. Credit Inflation. Collapse.
7. The Capital Economy. Its Two Grand Divisions, Public and Private. Its Immaturity and its Present Bondage.
8. The Capital Economy Unbound — Unrestricted Employment of Labor and Capital. Public and Private Finance. Public Administration Redeemed.
9. The Double Heritage of Mankind — The Animal and Destructive. The distinctively Human and Socially Creative.

10.       Wars as a Biologic Necessity Under Economic Repression — The Animal Economy at its Highest Technique. Resistance vs. Non-Resistance.

11.  The Rhythm of Repression — Absolutism to Parliamentarianism. Democracy to Dictatorship. “Our Enemy, the State.”

12.  Schopenhauer, Malthus and Ricardo — Apostles of the Animal Economy. The “Dismal Science.”

     13.  Henry George — A Herald of the Social Dawn.

14.  Universal Freedom and the Aristocratic Ideal. The Quest of Gladstone and Carlyle.

15.  Egoism vs. Altruism — Inadequate Social Organization. Their Complete Synthesis in an Unrestricted Economy.

16.  Religion and the Fine Arts as Inspiration to Creative Social Change.

17.  Ritual and Symbolism as Factors in Personal and Social Integration.

18.  Universal Principles of Organization — The Higher Evolution of Society. Individual Life in the Higher Forms of Social Organization.

 

 

Spencer Heath