Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1461

Carbon of letter from Heath to an unidentified addressee (erased) from The Science of Society, 11 Waverly Place East, New York City 3.

January 8, 1950

     I am a former research engineer who has devoted some years to an examination of the social (not the political) organization, not at all from the traditional and customary but from the objective and functional or operative point of view.

     Perhaps the most important practical result of my rational research is the discovery in every community of an absolutely essential distributive service — a primary public service — performed unconsciously as such by the owners of the basic realty and yielding to them in recom­pense a clearly distinguishable voluntary revenue that invites the now separated and unawakened recipients to unite regionally and thereby amplify their primary public service so as to create ample self-expanding public income (unlike self-limiting taxation) and so build community — real property — values conversely and in lieu of public deficits and debts.

     I have prepared for publication a somewhat comprehensive outline of the new objective science — Socionomy (See Webster’s New International Dictionary) — underlying this discovery as the key to its practice as a specific and concrete social technology. For an introduction to this many angled and somewhat abstract exposition and as a preliminary view, I am now trying to dramatize in narrative form, as in retrospect, a train of actual and hypothetical events leading finally to the entire operation of New York City (and by example others) by its organized actual owners as the self-solvent proprietary public authority distributing the common security, services and advantages — the whole service being recompensed to them according to its excellence and worth at the sites supplied, as determined by their annual market values automatically ascertained and voluntarily paid.

     This narrative is not finally written although fully and I think cleverly conceived, but I need help. Does it interest you?

sh/m                         Very sincerely,