Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1788

Notes dictated to Spencer MacCallum for a letter to Paul Poirot, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York.

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Dear Mr. Poirot:

     Here’s just a line or two, more or less out of season and without special occasion. Yet there should be no closed season for kindly communication among men who have a common faith and a common vision of newer and better years yet long to come.

    World situation and political home trend, looked at in the short term, are not encouraging. However, we must remind ourselves and each other that in the historic perspective, freedom — or any clear vision of it — though only a very rare and recent thing, is rich with promise, native to the spirit of man. Yet the dream must be implemented by the intellect and energized by concrete visions of its fulfillment. Nature blesses us with more freedom than we understand. Free-enterprise capitalism we must take not as a completed thing but as a small preview of the glory that is intrinsic in it and only awaiting our deeper understanding of its truly Utopian trend to set our hearts aflame.

    My Citadel, Market & Altar attempts to uncover the bases of freedom in the natural and in the human world and clothe it with a vision of its ever more fulfillment in all time to come. That it is being seen as such, I feel sure will be a satisfaction to you as it is to me. Wherefor I make bold to enclose herewith a circular and a booklet in partial evidence of this. I owe much to you and your associates at the Foundation for the recognition and encouragement I received.

     So with a hearty good will, let me subscribe myself as

                        Sincerely yours,