Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1517

Carbon of a letter dictated by Heath but signed by Spencer MacCallum, as an officer of the Science of Society Foundation, to Andrew Dickson White, Caldwell, Idaho.

July 6, 1954

Dear Mr. White:

     Sometime ago Leonard Read sent us a copy of your Fiat Money Inflation in France. We were enormously intrigued by it, almost terrified by your poignant pre­sentation, especially in its psychological aspects. – A cloud, once no bigger than a man’s hand but which now threatens utter devastation.

     It is our own happy conviction that there exists in the world and in nature what we may call divine alternatives to political and thereby destructive administration of property and human affairs – that the pure contract relationship, the non-political techno­logy of the market, as it comes to be understood and applied is capable of transcending all the dilemmas that beset public affairs.

     In line with this and with our compliments we are sending you some printed material that sets out the basic fallacies of coercive or political administration. It also throws, we hope, some light upon the non-coer­cive alternatives that only await our understanding of them in order to bless and serve mankind.

     Again expressing our appreciation, we remain,

Sincerely yours,