Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2276

Carbon of letter to Harold S. Dodds, President, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, regarding the book manuscript “Energy Concept of Population.”

April 24, 1942

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Dr. Dodds:

How can a society conduct its public business and affairs without resort to violence and causing occasion for war?

Do you know the answer? Do you want to know?

You do not consider violence necessary for the support or in the conduct of private services. Then why in the public?

One large part of the public business — a most essential part — is constantly being carried on solely by contract and common consent. So unobtrusively and well is this essential part done, we are not conscious of its import; we see little significance in it; even objurgate it.

The accompanying bound typescript discovers and discloses what this benignly performed essential public business is and how it can be extended to include all public business, without compulsions or compromises of any kind and with enormous profits and advantages to all.

It is only necessary that a considerable number of persons, like yourself, become conscious of this basic public service that is now being nonviolently performed, even to the finding of its own revenues, without taxes or alms. Automatically and without resistance, its extension will then follow, as a matter of course, and public violence cease.

Until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

     Permission for this typescript to occupy a place at or near your elbow for the next week or ten days is all that is asked. Please do not read it at all — unless it interests you — or any more of it than seems to do so.

Sincerely yours,

THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY FOUNDATION,

               

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