Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2150

Penned notes for a series of talks or a book? In a small, black pocket-size notebook containing dates 1935-1936

 

Original is in item 2139.

 

 

Society as a Super-Organism

 

An Emergence of Life from the Animal Level

of Action to the Human or Capital Economy

 

 

 

The Sovereignty of a Society

 

How it is exercised and

Apportioned over its Territory

 

Jurisdiction by

Officers and by Proprietors

 

 

 

Government as an Organ or Agent of Society

for its performance of Public Services

— The Creative Side of Government

 

 

 

The Economic Functions of Society

 

Mutual Exchange of Services.

 

Capital the Instruments of and

Vehicle for Conveying Services

 

 

 

Speculative Enterprise, Pursuit of Vision

the Highest Type of Productive Activity

 

 

The State as an Agency of Economic

Restriction and Repression

 

 

 

Restrictionism and Its Bitter Fruits

 

Disemployment

Monopolies

Ultimate Scarcity of Consumers’ Goods

Price Inflation

Speculation

Credit Inflation

Collapse

 

 

 

The Capital Economy

Its Two Grand Divisions, Public and Private

Its Immaturity and Its Present Bondage

 

The Capital Economy Unbound

Unrestricted Employment of Labor and Capital

Public and Private Finance

Public Administration Redeemed

 

 

 

The Double Heritage of Mankind —

The Animal and Destructive.

Distinctly Human, and Socially Creative

 

 

 

Wars as a Biologic Necessity under Economic Repression

The Animal Economy at its Highest Technique.

Resistance vs. Non-Resistance

 

 

 

The Rhythm of Repression —

Absolutism to Parliamentarianism

Democracy to Dictatorship

 

“Our Enemy The State”

 

 

 

Schopenhauer, Malthus and Ricardo,

Apostles of the Animal Economy

 

The “Dismal Science”

 

 

 

Henry George — A Herald of the Social Dawn

 

 

 

Universal Freedom and the Aristocratic Ideal —

The Quest of Gladstone and Carlyle

 

 

Egoism versus Altruism — Inadequate Social Organization, Their Complete Synthesis in an Unrestricted Economy

 

 

 

Religion and the Fine Arts as Inspiration to

Creative Social Change

 

 

Ritual and Symbolism as Factors in

Personal and Social Integration

 

 

 

Universal Principles of Organization

The Higher Evolution of Society —

Individual Life in the Higher Forms of Social Organization

 

 

 

Prof. Huxley said: “If there is no hope of a large improvement in the condition of the greater part of the human family,” he would back the advent of a kindly comet to sweep it all away. (Social Diseases and Worse Remedies, page 18.)

 

 

Darwin got his inspiration from Malthus. See his Life and Letters by his son, T. Darwin. Vol.1