Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2754

Typed draft of a letter from Heath to Victor Weingarten, 10 East 44^th Street, New York City 17, to whom he was also sending a bound copy of Citadel, Market and Altar.

February 26, 1958

 

 

 

As per telephone conversation today with your Mr. Fisher, I send

by your messenger a bound copy of my CITADEL, MARKET and ALTAR for your examination.

 

 You will find this is a wholly new departure in social thinking — a benignly revolutionary book — for it is founded on basic research in the natural sciences and in social origins, and thus brings newly to light a non-political technology in public affairs, a  non-coer­cive, value-creating and wholly self sustaining mode of public adminis­tration.

 As in the natural sciences, this book examines only the automatic interrelations among socially organized men, in which values are created and all are mutually served and the functioning of the social organism is thus maintained. And it shows how this vital technology, once it comes to be understood, will naturally extend itself into the field of public and community services and thus not only relieve private enterprise of a heavy burden but, in addition, will create vast values and profits, both public and private, of its own — and for all.

 Towards this awaiting free-enterprise alternative to political ad­ministration, this book invites the free organization and the wholesome ambitions of propertied end profit-motivated men. Yet it is withal no less vital to the passion for individual freedom and to the ideals of artiste and dreamers as well — a  thoroughgoing exposition of the nature of and the enormous social potentials in our self-evolving, creative capitalism.

 You will see by the enclosed jacket circular that scholars, jurists, churchmen, outstanding economists — leaders in many lines — are making unsolicited favorable comment. What is needed now is not necessarily any large popular sale of the book but that it shall somehow be so publicized that it will come under active discussion, both pro and con, among scien­tists, the learned societies and otherwise authoritative men. This seems not only desirable in itself but a necessary preliminary to the practical and profitable application in the business world of the great and heretofore unknown principle involved.

I shall appreciate and carefully consider any suggestions you can make along the above lines.

Very truly yours,

 

Enclosures:

Jacket circular

Notes on the Organization of Real Estate