Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1574

Carbon of a letter from Heath to Mrs. Kenneth C. Crain, 238 East 23rd Street, New York 10, New York

February 4, 1956

Dear Mrs. Crain:

     Please let me thank you for your exceedingly pleasant note of February 1st, carrying with it a set of The Edu­cational Reviewer published during four and one half years. The Foundation will be very happy to have these for reading and convenient reference.

     Let me congratulate you on your very fine efforts on behalf of freedom and equality. By this, I mean the freedom to own property not as mice do, but as capital, the way men do, so that they can use it on behalf of other men who wish to pay them for doing so. Property is the instrument of freedom, and without property, men cannot make or perform contracts for one another. With­out property, they cannot practice the golden rule of doing for others in the same manner they would have them do unto them.

     All administration of property is either contractual, which is free, or political, which is coercive and makes men slaves.

     As for equality, there is only one equality that is either possible or to be desired. That is, for each of us to have equality of authority over his own person and his own property, be it great or small.

     Pardon my pontification (in a good cause).

Sincerely yours,

 

 

SH/m