Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1901

Modern Age Vol.1, No.1. Contains pencil annotations by Heath, especially the article by Frederick Wilhelmsen, “History, Toynbee and the Modern Mind: Betrayal of the West.” These annotations are not reproduced here except for the three below. The rest are found in the journal itself located in the Originals envelope for this Item.

Summer 1957

 

 

Page 44/

     Rome, the most gigantic political failure in all history.

 

 

Page 45/           Wilhelmsen: “All the black and gold riot

                   Of heraldry emblazoning our Western past              suggests an attitude toward history                   fundamentally Roman.”

 

     That’s the whole hell of it. Christ laid down the practical alternative. The contractual relationship versus the coercive, creative in place of destructive.

 

 

47/

     Barbarians are never totalitarian. Barbarians never maintained a system of slavery or taxation or any other political institution.