Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1961

Pencil notes for a promotional letter to publishers about Citadel, Market and Altar.

 

White envelope has items 1961 & 1962.

 

 

Dear Mr. __________:   

     This is about a book — original — sui generis in its field.

     It deals with population, society, civilization, deftly from the ground up — a new point of view.

     It discovers how society works, not how it fails, and makes obvious how it can work more. A short book but many-sided.

     It exposes the manner of social growth for all times — writes no post-war prescriptions as such.

     Aloof from the current clamor for more government, super-government, it finds rulership the opposite of public service, all real services non-political, all politics intimately force, ultimately war.

     But it does discover an institution as widespread as government yet purged of all force against the public it serves and by whom it is automatically paid (or penalized) in proportion as it serves (or fails).

    It sees this institution destined to supersede “public services” /?/ by force, security by war — its high earnings being the incentive to its growth. It has the charm of a wonder book: Shows society a system of energy waves obeying precisely the same laws as electro-magnetic waves. Shows the social body to have the same three structures, same basic physiology as the individual body. Shows social energy liberating individual energy and will; individual rights as functions in _______________. It shows Society a divine agency for continuous re-creation of its world.

     It sees gradual abolition of taxation and quiet transformation of political powers (government) into productive services, to the enrichment of all.

     And in the liberation of the exchange (“capitalist”) system it finds an ultimate realization of the socialist ideal — the Utopian dream.

    Would you like to look at this book? It is well typed and diagrammed, loose-leaf and zipper bound.

The author seeks a bold and enthusiastic publisher, — with or without risk.