Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1469

An exchange of correspondence between Miss Olive Freeman, 52 Bast 34th Street, New York 16, New York, December 23, 1952, and Spencer MacCallum, writing for the Science of Society Foundation, with Heath’s added comment

January 16, 1953

Gentlemen:

I have read the EXPOSÉ referred to in your recent mailing, and now, as so often in the past, am unable to take Spencer Heath seriously. He is a superficial thinker and it is unfortunate that so many people are inclined to take him seriously. We, who are interested in freedom, would do well to encourage thinkers who are able to deal in basic issues, rather than thinkers of Heath’s calibre. Please remove my name from your mailing list. I congratulate The Freeman on it’s new policy, regarding this remarkable Exposé.

/s/ Olive Freeman

Dear Miss Freeman:

We are glad to comply with the request of your card of December 23rd.

 Our effort is to promote understanding of how the societal structure and organization functions, as opposed to political organization by which it is restricted and which it must eventually outgrow.

 We feel the following quotation from Mr. Heath is pertinent:

The social organization, in itself, practices no violence, no coercion, no bad faith, in its purely contractual processes. It thus has only one maxim, the Golden Rule, and only one goal – the Kingdom of Heaven on this earth through its ever lifting and liberating and lengthening its members’ lives. This “Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent take it by force,” that is, by taxation and regulation and war. It must be ever so to the extent that we neglect to understand the power and beneficence and beauty of the societal system of mutual services through contract and non-coercive exchange, and continue our vain and hapless trust in “principal­ities and powers” – the agencies of taxation and wars.

Very truly yours,

 

 

Spencer MacCallum

Secretary

 

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/Heath’s comment:  “Swearls before pine.”/