Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2375

Letter to Andrew Dickson White, c/o Caxton Press, Ltd., Caldwell, Idaho

July 6, 1954

 

 

Dear Mr. White:

 

Some time ago Leonard Read sent us a copy of your Fiat Money Inflation in France. We were enormously intrigued by it, almost terrified by your poignant presentation, especially in its psychological aspects — a cloud, once no bigger than a man’s hand but which now threatens utter devastation.

 

 It is our own happy conviction that there exists in the world and in Nature what we may call divine alternatives to political and thereby destructive administration of property and human affairs — that the pure contract relationship, the non-political technology of the market, as it comes to be understood and applied, is capable of transcending all the dilemmas that beset public affairs.

 

 In line with this and with our compliments we are sending you some printed material that sets out the basic fallacies of coercive or political administration. It also throws, we hope, some light upon the non-coercive alternatives that only await our understanding of them in order to bless and serve mankind.

 

 Again expressing our appreciation we remain,

 

                            Sincerely yours,

 

                            Spencer MacCallum                                              Secretary

 

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