Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2809

Typing and penciling by Spencer MacCallum on several odd-sized pieces of paper, proposing a bibliographic project to be undertaken by the Science of Society Foundation for the advancement of libertarianism. The preliminary listing of books and most of the wording by Heath.

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—  BOOKS ON THE GROWING EDGE —

An Honor-Bibliography representing our selection of some of the most significant books (published since 1900) for creative, philosophic thinking about the future of society. This is a preliminary compilation. We have just started thinking about this. Will you honor us by thoughtfully adding one or a number of books (or pamphlets or publications of any kind) to the coupon below and returning it to us — books that you feel break ground toward an understanding of the positive future of free society and man’s place in the world?

 

 

/The following is a preliminary list of titles suggested by Heath, MacCallum putting them down in pencil. Hayek was crossed out but then restored with a check mark. Mises was included, but Heath commented, “Mises is pretty much of a stick-in-the-mud. He’s a good stick and well stuck — but that’s what he is — not a tree with philosophic roots and bearing fine fruit. He’s just a stick in the mud. You couldn’t have a much better stick in the mud, though!” And further, “This is an effort to develop the philosophic minds in the libertarian movement — to help the movement for freedom grow intellectually, to give it stature as a philosophic movement .. to help it grow intellectually — to plant its feet firmly in all reaches of human experience. …Forward looking, intended to develop libertarians as philosophers — pull the libertarian movement forward. With the possible exception of Mises, it is not a statement of where we now stand.”

Another title suggested for this project was “Break-Through Books — Since 1900 — ”/

 

 

Robert Bridges

The Testament of Beauty

 

*Arthur Dendy

Outlines of Evolutionary Biology

 

*___  Gerard

Organism, Society and Science

 

F.A. Hayek

The Constitution of Liberty

 

Spencer Heath

Citadel, Market and Altar

 

Peter Kropotkin

Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

 

Lecomte du Nouy

Human Destiny

 

*Ralph Lillie

General Biology and Philosophy of Organism

 

*Franklin J. Matchette

Outline of a Metaphysics: The Absolute-Relative Theory

 

*Edward McCrady

Religious Perspectives of College Teaching in Biology

 

Ludwig von Mises

Human Action

 

Donald Culross Peattie

Flowering Earth

 

Max Planck

The Universe in the Light of Modern Physics

 

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

A Natural Science of Society

 

E.C. Riegel

Private Enterprise Money

 

George Santayana

The Sense of Beauty

 

Olive Schreiner

Dreams

 

*Erwin Schroedinger

What is Life?

 

Charles Scott Sherrington

Man on His Nature

 

Edmund W. Sinnott

Cell and Psyche: The Biology of Purpose

 

*Archibald Wheeler

Septet of Sibyls

 

Alfred North Whitehead

Science and the Modern World