Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2759

Typed page promoting Citadel, Market and Altar to prospective publishers. Incidentally, it might be noted that Spencer MacCallum and Heath both frequently put SH:M after a typed piece. In the case of MacCallum, it meant the item had been dictated to him by Heath. But in Heath’s case, as below, it meant the item had been typed by him, looking as if he had had a secretary. He said in reality it meant he had typed it himself — as if “dictated to the machine” (meaning the typewriter). A bit of humor on his part.

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Here is an unusual book — fresh, timely, unique — the working out­line for a new OBJECTIVE science, a NATURAL SCIENCE of Society.

 Research engineer, inventor, ex-industrialist, student of the sci­ences and master of laws, this author LOOKS BEYOND PROBLEMS to discover PROCESSES — the basic social structures and their NORMAL functions.

 Taking the same basis as physical science, this book treats of population as a multiplex SYSTEM OF ENERGY WAVES having variable frequency according to the average life—span attained by its successive gener­ations, and constituting, by its SOCIAL functioning, the only organized life-form or organism that has power to subdue and re-create its environ­ing world and to become thereby SELF CONDITIONED.

 Clearly distinguishing voluntary SOCIAL processes from the polit­ical and coercive, this writer finds public services essentially UNLIKE the general public practices that DEPEND ON FORCE and thus cause wars.

 By this distinction he discovers an EXISTING SOCIAL INSTITUTION, ever present, non-political, imposing no coercion upon the public whom it silently yet vitally serves, and by whom it is AUTOMATICALLY repaid.

 Having only VOLUNTARY REVENUES, without taking by force (as do con­querors following conquests), this ancient yet still infant institution is shown fully potent to displace rulership and force with the SERVICES of peace, IMMENSE NEW INCOME AND PROPERTY VALUES becoming its incentive and reward, not as a taxing and enslaving power but as the guardian of freedom and peace, PAID PUBLIC SERVANT, and protector of all.

 And in this release of the SOCIAL PROCESS from taxation and consequent enslavement to a coercive power he sees the FREE system of public and private capital administration BY ITS OWN NORMAL PROCESSES moving directly into progressive realizations of the ultimate social ideal.

Would you be interested in the manuscript or a topical synopsis of a work of this kind?

Sincerely yours,

SH:M