Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1467

Letter from The Science of Society, 11 Waverly Place East, New York City 3, Louis H. Solomon, 5 East Tenth Street, New York 3, New York

March 24, 1952

Dear Mr. Solomon:

Enclosed I send four more of those cards that list twelve of the rationally discovered characteristics ex­hibited by the modern organic society — that powerful and majestic yet wholly voluntary organization of human energy and life that the modern era has so wonderfully though far from completely evolved despite full persis­tence of the ancient coercive and therefore essentially totalitarian political institutions.

On the back of these cards is an outline of the basic philosophy believed to be implicit in and common to every science that gives birth to a rational as against a merely empirical technology.

It has been my task to expose the distinctive rationale underlying the empirical practices through which the organic society functions and to predict the spontaneous free enter­prise technology of social advance that becomes obvious and inevitable as its fundamental rationale is disclosed.

Upon this latter point I am sending also herewith two copies in fictional form of my anticipations for New York City as to the next great societal advance by extension of the free enterprise technology into the public domain. I have considered including this story as a supplementary annex to my principal manuscript but feel that the second half of it could be very much strengthened and improved.

I cannot forbear happy anticipations with reference to your project of gaining the attention and enlisting the interest of Mr. Bernard Baruch in my social researches. Quite conceivably his reactions to your kind effort might include a gratitude to you that would be exceeded only by my own.

Sincerely,

I enclose also a print of the title page and two other pages of a partial prospectus. Two other pages will be supplied when prints have been secured.