Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1635

Carbon of a letter from Heath to Mildred Loomis.

August 22, 1957

 

 

Dear Mildred Loomis:

     Many thanks again for your review in The Interpreter of the proposed Suez Canal Solution.

 

     I think you might be similarly interested in my Citadel, Market and Altar, a copy of which I am happy to send to you with my compliments and with some extracts from letters that have been received.

     I realize that this book will, in some respects, run counter to long cherished convictions. But I am sure also you realize that there can be no fundamental incongruity where the same fundamental principles are involved. I am often reminded how Henry George in the second paragraph of his Preface to the Fourth Edition of Progress and Poverty anticipates the need to carry further the applications of the general principles established by him. His general principal of course was freedom in association, and as I have expressed in the enclosed folder, “Society and Its Services,” “That rent instead of taxes is the naturally ordained recom­pense for community services is the very heart and essence of the Georgian ideal.” And, as he says, “If the conclusions that we reach run counter to our pre­judices, let us not flinch.”

     I often think of your wonderful life at Lane’s End with its beautiful ideals and association, and often wish I might have closer association with you.

     With all best wishes,            

Cordially,

 

SH/m

Enc: “The Practice of Christian Freedom”

Comments on “Solution for the Suez”

“Society and Its Services”

 

Citadel, Market and Altar under separate cover