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This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copy order if, in its judgement, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of the copyright law. A UTHOR: SPRATT, LEONIDAS TITLE: MAN IN CON I INUATION AT THIS EARTH... PLA CE: WASHINGTON, D. DA TE: 1894 COLUMBIA UNIVERSm' IIBRARIF ^ RFSE K \^ AT 1 ON D i ■ I' A RT M I: NT Master Negative # 96-^(602-2 B!BI lOGRAPTIIC MI CROFO RM TARGET ««Ki»~=»™,a»~«'-.«m™«(.^*w-™..™~™*» ■Mt<.-^;-.^f^,-.^stii-^ MjiWia W!" . 1 1 ..^-a«ii,.. -.»»»b-j»™™»»|b.™.,™»«-w.'~«.b«iw fnr-ii iiirffilffPi iiin i ■iiiiiiiMnmii iii.i^lnm mniirillllll rr^liimim —Inn r-T~ T :i.l»i.. iiiLILii.. .iriiiiimrrr .njrui.niJ.L junMrTJi'iij ...:rai.'.J-nj»:L^.^.- .jjt.u, -L- ., iT^ ' . T ' ~ Urigmai Material as lalmed - Existing Bibliographic Record •i!;^M !• I Spratt, Loonidas, Han in continuation at tlds earth of nature o^ reality throia-hout the universe by tradition of tliat reality from ito original universe of force, by LconicUiG Cpratt-.. 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WASHINaTON, i>. o. : Gibson Bros., Pkint«rs and Bookbinsicbs. 1894. I r ■,;agg?L-j»-- .uy^.^lM ,,i ,) i ^ ji I .tutwuMJH i iii i in | ,.j|i I . \( ( V . ^ I I Jacksonville, Fla., May 8, 1894. Dear Sir : I beg to submit, herewith, the preface and introduction to a work in deduction of terrestrial phenomena from the hypothesis of an original reality in an universe of force. The special object is to show that there is a nature of that reality in life throughout the universe of which man himself is in continuation of this earth, and this ultimately through unions of unequal human lerces in relations of inequality. But the general and prime objective cause is that universe of life in nature, of whose existence man, in such continua- tion, is conclusive proof. In preparation of the work, how- ever, I have become sensible that the showing I make is not sufficient to establish a proposition so inadequately stated, as I fear this is, and I have suspended publication, there- fore, for advantage of such contemporary criticism as I can get upon it, and any notice you can give, be it favorable or otherwise, will be equally servicable and as thankfully received. Nor will it be altogether gratuitous. If it be true that there is reality, it is as true that of this there is nature, and of nature man in continuation of nature at this earth. That reality, therefore, were the condition of science, consisting in the inductions of terrestrial phenomena. It were also the condition of philosophy, consisting in deductions from the ultimate hypothesis established by inductions of phen- omena. x\nd to man, but the provisional product of his own philosophy and science of this earth, it is obviously import- ant that he find whether there be that basis for his science and philosophy or not. This he can do but in the lights of reasons men have to throw on it, and not more for my ow^i interest than the interests of the general, I ask for your suggestions in any form you may be pleased to give them. LEONIDAS SPRATT. i* ■< t ( MAN IN CONTINUATION AT THIS EARTH OF Nature of Reality Tlirougliout tlie Universe BY TRADITION OF THAT REALITY FROM ITS ORIGINAL UNIVERSE OF FORCE. BT LEONIDAS SPRATT. Copyright 1893 by Lttnidas SpratL washington, d. o. : Gibson Bbob., Printebr and Bookbindbrs. 1894. ) i MAN IN CONTINUATION OF NATURE. PEEFACE. The following papers were prepared as preface aDcl introduction to an argument upon the subject of " Man in Continuation of Nature," but they liave become voluminous ; and, as tJiey contain an outline of the argument, I have thought it best to publish them to themselves, that the argument, itself heavy enough, Avill be relieved of that unnecessary weight. LEONIDAS SPRATT. To MAN the truth of his relation to nature is im- portant. There is a course of being Ave term nature through stars, sun, earth, plant, and animal from the universe to man : and to him it is important to know whether he, also, be of this nature or not. If he be, he is of it but as are other natures ; and to be but his most and best at his time and place possible ; and, to test the question whether he be of nature or not, I have proposed that he be in continuation of nature. He can be in continuation of nature but as he be of nature. But he can be of nature but as he be in the course of the resolutions of that being from the universe of which is nature. Of this he can be but as at his time and place he be his best and most ; and this simply : and as a crucial test, not only of the truth that man is of nature but that he is in nature but to be his most and best, it is proposed that he is in continuation of nature. And to this it is con- tended that there is reality. That there is infinite being finite ; and this the word of God ; and this an universe of force of which at this earth there are the physical forces, heat, light, electricity and mag- 4 398128 J. PREFACE. PREFACE. D netism — dynamic in that seeming vacuum we term space and static in that apparent plenum we term matter — and that of this there is nature. And it is intended that of this there is nature ; and, fiivt, for the reason that there is a nature for which there were no other source; and next for that the reality is being physiological, and capable, as such, of tele- ologic evo-involution into the beings possible from the universe to man. That man in organic matter at this earth is such being physiological in teleologic evo-involution into the man possible. That in this he is in continuation at this earth of a nature of reality throughout the universe. And that this — the theory of man in continuation of nature — is depend- ent for its truth but upon the condition that there be such original reality in an universe of force. And that while there is no such reality visible to man there is the hypothesis of such reality as the condition of every phenomenon to man, no one of which were possible, or other than the miracle of consequence without cause, if there be not cause in such reality. And that there are the natures from the universe to man inclusive by deduction from such hypothesis, which itself were the miracle of cause without consequence if there be not such na- tures as truly as that every nature were the miracle of consequence without cause if there be not cause in such hypothesis. And that there is man of such nature as well for the reason that he were else the miracle of consequence without cause as for that he is in fact such being physiological in teleologic evo- involution not only into the unilateral man of a sin- gle race of man existing now, but into a better and more abundant man of unequal races in relations of inequality. It is contended that the present man is not the man possible — that he is not the most possible or the best possible that he be his most. That there are vast tracts of this earth's surface unoccupied by man ; that of that occupied there is scarce an acre so cultivated as to produce its most in support of man ; and that there is room enough upon this earth under proper cultivation for a million to the one of man upon it now. That even monognmic man, now the best, from the infirmities of his social constitution cannot ad- vance to such occupation of the earth ; that no mono- gamic state can long survive the dominion of its prole- tariate. That this is the power to administer a state in these who do not furnish a means to its support. That this is a lethal agent of decadence and disso- lution. And that of this in every monogamic state there is scarcely the period of maturity before the process of decadence begins, to end in dissolution — with no state surviving. After which the state to populate the place must start de novo. That every such state is without the conditions of a constitu- tion ; that these can possibly exist but in a state of unequal races in relations of inequality ; and that of such states, only, is there to be the ultimate popu- lation of this earth. i 6 PREFACi:. Tliere are now unequal orders of tlie human race. The agamic man is unequal to the polygamic, and the polygamic to the mouogamic man, in their re- spective al)ilities to procure the means of subsistence and support. But the greater the respective differ- entiations from the neutral human being intermediate the greater is their fitness for concurrence in such man. As upon the ineradicable differences of par- ents male and female depends their ability to unite iu production of a family, so different are the agamic savages of Africa and the monogamic citizens of Eu- rope. And it is intended that of an union of tliese races there were bilateral states as much above the simple agamic or monogamic state as is the family agamic, polygamic, or monogamic to the parents who ])roduce it. Such was the man of agamic blacks and mono- gamic whites lately in union in these Southern states. And it is contended that such union of such races is necessary to the man possible and that in this Southern man there was the potency and promise of the largest, best and most abundant man this world has known. And that this is not an inconsiderate conception, or an expression of impatience merely at the results of our experiences, or even an after- thought from consequences however these be fitted to suggest it, but is a matured opinion from anxious consideration of the subject, my utterances and ac- tivities in that period before the war when issues were made up, will show. PREFACE. In 1853 I had charge of the '* Standard," a paper at Charleston, S. C. — of no great importance — and fated to an early end, and, possibly, through my mismanagement, — though, started to an occasion, it is doubtful if it could have long survived it. Some years before, the state liad nullified an act of con- gress and from compromises offered had receded from her ordinance. But the compromises were not kept. It was complained by the people of that state that the tariff acts of congress in protection of indus- tries at the North were of injury to the South. And in response to the ordinance by another act of con- gress the evil was abated somewhat, but by later acts the duties were not only reimposed but increased. With this the spirit of resistance was again aroused, and, — the sufficiency of nullification having become questioned, — the measure of secession was proposed ; and, with respect to this, the only question was, — or seemed to be, — whether this state should await the " co-operation " of other Southern states or go alone ; and to resist the separate action of the state the Standard was established; and the resistance was successful. The sense of the state expressed in 1852 was against the measure of separate state action, and, — the Standard of victory then without further office, — I was at liberty to adopt what policy I pleased. And I was pleased with that of a revival of tlie foreign slave-trade, — at least to the extent of removing from it the censures and restrictions of the general gov- O PRKFACK. ernment. The foreigu slave-trade had brought the slaves there were to tlie South, but had been sup- pressed as piracy by act of congress in 1808, at which time the states admitting slavery were the more potent and progressive; but from that time forward the slave states advanced but by natural increase ; and the " free " states as they were called, by this and by an average of near 250,000 pauper laborers yearly from abroad. In each there was its special civilization, and that of the North had thus become the stronger. And more than that, it had become distinctively proletariate in the recognition of the right of those to rule the state not participat- ing in the proprietary contributions to sustain the state. There is man, as I have said, but in the family agamic, polygamic, and monogamic. And agamic in the children, infant and adult, about a store of pro- visions in the hands of their unmarried mother. And polygamic in such children of several mothers about a store in the hands of their single father. And monogamic in such children of a single mother about a store in the hands of a single father. And the agamic man in savage stocks ; and the poly- gamic in barbarous tribes; and the monogamic in civil states; with a possible man in an union o^ monogamic and agamic families, the one white and the other black, about a store in the hands of the white male parent and master to sustain them both in one. And as in theory of the monogamic state,— the PREFACE I onlv one to be considered, — there is this but of mon- ogamic families, — and these in subsistence and safety but upon a store of provisions in the hands of the male parent, — the state itself can be in subsistence and safety but upon a store contributed by pro- prietary male parents, who only therefore can right- fully have suffrage with respect to it. And in result of such proprietary parental suffrage in application of such store to the uses of the state there is its government to be termed patriate. But from indo- lence, inefficiency, calamity, or crime, parents cease to be proprietary witl out forfeiture of franchise ; and adult males, not });.reuts, acquire the right to vote ; and — if this be not enough to the dissolu- tion of the state — adult females must acquire that right ; and if this be not enough, infants, male and female, must acquire that right ; so that in time there comes to be a very large majority of these not con- tributing to the support of the state who have power to dispose — and to their own uses — of the fund upon which the state subsists : That majority in every monogamic state becomes the state. There is no restriction of its volition in a constitution it inter- prets. It is an intrusive and abnormal being, there- fore, and not in support but in subversion of the state, which therefore becomes the car for all to ride on but none to pull ; and its government a game of pool, at which the players order the propertied party to put up the stakes they play for. The state under the proprietary parents who sup- 10 PREFACE port the state is a state of offspring controlled by parents and termed patriate. The state under those who do not support it is one of parents controlled by offspring. And the one the patriate^ the other is WiQi j)'^^^^timate state ; and as the proclivities of indi- vidual interests are resistless ; as every being in nature is ciiarged with the continuation of its own existence without the power to exist for any other ; and as to this rule the man is no exception, as he can- not of thought add a cubit to his stature, or at his time and place be otlier than he is or originate a motive to his own volition — this proletariate must loot the patriate state. The wage-earner will have more pay for less work. Industries combining will be protected at the expense of others ; pensions will be allowed and drawn under every possible pretext of service ; salaried men and millionaires will make visible investments but in property abroad, or in the bonds of the government not taxed ; and men and women will quit the continuation of their race on marriage for sensual indulgences without it. Such and so proletariate in principle were the states of the ]Sorth at the time referred to. And that proletariate practically supreme in every Northern state was also in virtue of their larger population soon to be su- preme in congress, and taking what it wanted through the legislatures of the Northern states it was about to take through congress what it wanted of the South. Against this there was no appeal even to its lucid moments, which could not possibly occur. And PREFACE. 11 it was as remorseless as fate for the reason simply that it was as blind. Of this was the House of Commons in 1832, which could see in the reform bill but that upon this depended the re-election of its members. And of this the Lords, who could see but that upon this depended their exemption from a deluge of new- created peers. And of this the judges of the supreme court of the United States, who, after a week of oratory, could see but as they saw at first, that Mr. Hayes was of the proletariate faction represented by the one part of that body and Mr. Tilden of that repre- sented by the other, and that tUere was nothing to be done but to let the decision rest upon their respective numbers. And such the proletariate, — an inverted na- ture to extinguish human life and a lethal reptile to form and crawl and feed upon the vitals of the state as larval insects feed upon the carcass of their host, — against this there was resistance but in counter ac- tion ; and this but in the introduction of another race sufficient for the offices of labor under a higher race but without participation in its direction. Such I assumed to be the negro under the whites in the Southern states ; and, — with such a population of a weaker in subordination to a stronger race of man, — that no proletariate in any monogamic state could form. I was assured that with that trade reopened there would have been slaves at importers' prices and that at these every capable white man could and would have owned his slave. That so he had been a slav- 12 PREFACE. PREFACE. 13 ery propagandist, — that there would have been own- ers not only at the South but to the North of the line between the States ; and that with greater in- tegrity than had been greater territory to the South. Nor was it necessary that the trade should have been reopened by the South : legitimated, northern capi- tal had imported slaves to tlie utmost requisition North or South. And so in considering the fortunes of the South it seemed to her material interests at least that the trade should be legitimated. And it was becoming, also, that it should be. If the trade were piracy the. slave was }>lunder, and it was not only unbecoming but immoral to hold prop- erty the procurement of which was justly branded as a crime, and our acquiescence in the action of the government imposing such brand was an admis- sion of its justice. Nor did it seem that even the proletariate North would seriously oppose the removal of the brand. It wanted and was bound to havt^ what it could take by proletariate legislation from the South ; and the richer and fatter that might be the better. And the South had been richer and the Union richer from the importation of foreign slaves. They would have supplied the want of slaves at the South quite inad- equate to her possible industries and to the requisi- tions of a growing West, and they would have come in the place of pauper laborers from abroad and had been more productive and not in competition with wage-earners at the North but to their support, the every one of whom could and would have owned his slave at importers' prices ; and they could and would have taken bleeding Kansas and extended slavery from Missouri to the Pacific, and probably north- ward to the line of Canada. It is possible that upon this extended state the proletariate then existing in the republican party would have lost its grip. But of this danger it would have been unconscious. And I am quite assured that if the South had presented to the North the alternative of the slave-trade or secession, the North would have readily accepted the slave-trade and that our differences had been composed. The North would have persisted in a sectional presidency, but the significance of that movement would have been different. The South, satisfied with the ulti- mate security of her civilization, would have been in- difierent to such movement, and even have given her vote as she had often done to a Northern man ; and instead of a proletariate without a constitution other than that the proletariate may interpret to its uses, there had been a state with a constitution the best possible and the only constitution to a mono- gamic people possible, and this in the ineradicable difi'erences of unequal races united in relations of inequality. But the merit of this policy was in its adoption, only, at that time : and convinced then of its im- portance as I am now, and that the peace, safety, fortunes, and the fate of this republic depended on .•&*„:*te'*^ ,;a*-!F5J£ !*^««*«-RsS*Wt^ 14: PKKPWCE. it, with li wearying pertinacity I did to its adop- tion what I could. I put it before the South hy articles in my ow^n paper and before the South and North by articles so written as to force their entrance to the Herald, Times and Tribune, and to its popular consideration I kept it for years before the commercial conyention of the Southern states. There had been an annual conyention of Southern gentlemen to questions of Southern policy before whom at Savannah in 1856 I placed the resolution that as a measure of Southern policy the trade be reopened. This was debated for the week to the ex- clusion of other subjects, and again at Knoxyille in 1857, and at Montgomery in 1858, and at Vicksburg in 1859, where it was finally adopted and referred as an expression of Southern sentiment to Southern people. But before there was more decisive action Mr. Lincoln was elected as a sectional president ; and there was secession ; and the holding of Fort Sumter; and the firing on it consequent ; and invasion, and the war, and subjugation of the South and the liberation of lier slaves ; and this to the general satisfaction, it would seem, of this country and the world. The proletariate North is satisfied as nearly as that monster may be in the millions of money it may take to protected industries and pensions. And the South, now as proletariate as the North, is satisfied — as many of her distinguished men declare — at least in her freedom from an odious institution and her PREFACE. 15 admission to the swim of a proletariate democracy. And the Avorld generally is satisfied with the estab- lishment here of a proletariate state, — for the reason expressed that it is matter they had nothing to do with, — but for the real reason that all monogamic states are becoming tended that there is a dermal appendage o! organic matter to this earth, consisting in phints, animals and man : and the plant as endoderm and the animal as mesoderm ; and man as ectoderm, — it is intended that there is room for the endoderm and mesoderm but as the ectoderm expands ; and that the ectoderm can ex- pand but as there be corresponding expansions of the derms included ; and that so man can enlarge but as he enlarges his means of subsistence and sup- port ; that to this he must have more and better soil, to more and better plants, to more and better ani- mals, to more and better man ; that this were giving room and opportunity to animals and plants and, — these natures,— this were giving room and opportu- nity to natures thus existing more abundantly; and that thus man in continuation of his own nature, simply, is in continuation, through animals and plants, of the nature of the earth and universe. And that man is in continuation of nature in con- tinuing into the man possible the axis of Ufe in na- ture from the axis of the universe. Intended that there is an univ>Brse of energy in force, and that this is of life and nature, and life cause and nature con- sequence in evo-involutions, of which there are the stars, suns, and planets, from the universe to this earth ; a planet in evo-involution of which there is its crust of matter, and its atmosphere of force, and its plants and animals and man; — it is intended that there is a continuous and unbroken axis of life and nature in reaction ; that of these in this earth the space centre is life and the crust of matter nature, and of these in the plant the staminate principle is life and the pistillate nature ; and of these in the animal the sperm is life and the germ nature ; and of these in man the man is life and the woman na- ture, and the parent life and the family nature ; and that thus there is an axis of life and nature through natures possible from the universe to man, and that man in continuation of this axis is in continuation of nature ; and in actual continuation of nature to the man possible now existing under the conditions, and in potential continuation of nature to the man possible under possible conditions. And that man is in continuation of the axis of beings static and dynamic in reaction ; that there are principles stami- nate and pistillate, — the one dynamic and the other static, and the one axle and the other disk, — of the plant ; and the one sperm and the other germ, and the one dynamic and the other static, and the one axle and the other disk, of the animal ; and the one male and the other female, and the one man and the other woman, and the one dynamic and the other static, and the one axle and the other disk, of man ; and these, also, the one parent and the other chil- dren in the familv of man ; and these the one man and the other the state of man in families united to their means of being best and most. And such the axis of a being of beings dynamic and static in reaction that man of this is its ultimate term, and so in its contiuuation at this earth. 100 INTRODUCTION. And,— intended that being dynamic is life and being static nature, relatively, and that the axis of these reacting is life and disk nature,-itis intended that man, so far as he yet exists, is in continuation of nature, and that this is the nature of the earth and universe. It is intended that by induction of the phenomena of the plant apart from other beings at this earth there is the necessary hypothesis of such beings dy- namic and static in nature ; and by induction of the phenomena of the animal there are such and of man such, and,-this nature,— that there were plant, ani- mal and man successively in continuation of a nature, whether that be of the nature of the earth and universe or not. But by induction of the phe- nomena of plant, animal and man there is as neces- sarily the hypothesis of the axis of a being in life and nature from the earth, and through this from the axis of the universe, in the fact that if there be not, the earth, plant, animal and man were each the miracle of consequence without antecedent cause, which man may not consciously accept; and that man, therefore, as far as he has gone, is in continua- tion of the axis of nature in this earth and universe, and this in the reactions of naturally differentiated man upon the axis of their neutral beings interme- diate, the first being that of parents, male and female, in production of children, and the next that of parents and children in the production of the family, and the next that of families differentiated in INTRODUCTION. 101 production of the state. That of these phenomena, the first appears in the human family agamic, con- sisting in children, infant and adult, about a store of provisions for its support in the hands of its unmar- ried female parent, and the next in the polygamic family of the children of several mothers, infant and adult, about a store in the hands of a single father ; and the next in the monogamic family of the chil- dren of a single mother about a store in the single father, each such family differing from the animal or its immediate antecedent but in its capacity for food, — and food life, in its capacity for life, in strict anal- ogy to the cryptogamic, phanerogamic, endogenous and exogenous plant, and to the radiate, annulate, ar- ticulate and vertebrate animal, and to the fish, reptile, digitigrade and plantigrade of vertebrate animals; and all, — but the state of man, — analogous to the exogenous plant or the vertebrate animal, which, if possible, has not been yet accomplished ; and that man, therefore, to his state of monogamic man, is in continuation of the nature of the earth and uni- verse in his continuation to that extent of the axis of nature from the universe. And it is intended that he will yet accomplish that fourth stage of man analogous to the fourth in plant and animal, and this in the union of un- equal races of man in relations of inequality. That there are unequal races, — in their abilities at least to continue their existences as such ; that between races so differentiated as are the agamic and mono- 102 INTRODUCTION. gamic races there are affinities analogously the same as between the male and female of differentiated man • that of these affinities they are susceptive of coincidence and differentiation on the axis interme- diate, as are the male and female of sexually differ- entiated man ; that in the genesis of plant or ani- mal the male is spore and the female nidus ; that this also is so in man ; that of the sexually differen- tiated man the male is spore and the female nidus, and of the races of differentiated man the lower is spore to the higher nidus ; and that there will be an union of the unequal races of unilateral man in pro- duction of compound man, as of the sexes of man there is union in production of the individual man ; and that thus there will be an elongation of the axis of human nature as in the fourth order of plants and animals there is of plants and animals, and thus a continuation of nature by man, not only to the pres- ent man but to the man possible. It is intended that there is not now in existence the man possible ; that the surface of the earth is capa- ble of supporting thousands to the one man upon it now and that in man there is the capacity through proper methods of being and activity to produce from the earth's surface the food for such larger popula- tion, and the larger population to consume such food but that there is not the mode of man m ex- istence now capable of that denser and better popu- lation possible ; that agamic man is not so capable or polygamic man so capable, nor is monogamic INTRODDCTION. 103 man so capable ; that to such man it is neces- sary that there be not only the order, industry, efficiency and economy possible, but that there be duration to the existence to that state of pos- sible man indefinitely greater than that possible to any state of monogamic man. It is useless to argue that any man lower than the monogamic is capable of becoming the man possible, and it is quite demonstrable that monogamic man himself is not ; and first for the reason that there is not sufficient duration to the nature of such state. Intended that the nature of advancing man is from the rupture of successive natures, to the nature ultimately possible, as is that of the plant or animal advancing to its possibilities, it is intended that in every state of mono- gamic man at its maturity there are the pulsations of unsettled life, and these from the proletariate against the proprietary state. Intended that in every nature there are life and nature, it is intended that these in the monogamic state of man are primarily in the property of the state as life to the state itself, — dependent on that property, — as nature, but secondarily and more ob- viously in the people of the state as life and the state itself as the nature of that life, and in the theory of such state it is conceded that there is no reason why it might not exist indefinitely. The monogamic state is of monogamic families, each of the children of a single mother about a store of provisions in the hands of their single father ; and 104 INTRODUCTION. the State of such families united is in charge but of that property which proprietary male parents have seen proper, by an instrument termed a constitution, to vest in it for administration to the uses of themselves and families, and there is no more reason why even such unilateral compact should not be respected and endure perpetually. And if there were no change in the relations of such famihes to each other and the state it would be so respected and would so endure. But a change of relations must necessarily occur. Parents originally proprietary must lose their prop- erty from indolence, inefficiency, vice, calamity or crime ; and if originally there be provision that upon such occurence they lose their right to participate in the disposition of the common property, that pro- vision will be withdrawn ; in sequence of this, adult males not parental or proprietary will acquire the elective franchise, and these males and unpropertied parents will constitute a majority to elect represent- atives to the legislature, with the power to dispose to their uses of the common property, and with power to draw by taxes indetinitely the property of others to their uses, and to inaugurate, in fact, a game of pohtical poker, at which the players may call upon others to put up the stakes. Upon such conditions the government by imposts will be made to favor the interests of some at the expense of others, and by internal improvements to favor some sections at the expense of others, and there will come to be millionaires to invest in non-taxable securities of the INTRODUCTION. 105 government ; taxable property will be without holders ; wage-earners will demand more money for less time ; all will demand that the state shall educate their chil- dren and give employment to those without it, and support the helpless, vicious and criminal classes, and generally, upon even manhood suffrage simply, the government will be made a car of progress upon which all will ride and which none will pull ; and, in result of this, property will cease to exist, and the state not able to survive property, there will be an end to that state as certainly as to the individ- ual man whose muscular and nervous tissues are dis- continuous from disease or age. But if by possi- bility in any case this be not so from adult manhood suffrage simply, the deterioration would go on, and first adult women would be allowed to vote, and then children, male and female ; and children di- vorced from parents would start life without employ- ments or capacity of performance, and women, forced to make a living for themselves, would become re- gardless of their obligation to continue the race of man, and the race of that state of man would stop and the race and state both cease to exist. It is intended that in every monogamic state, from want of naturally different contracting parties, the constitution, so called, is necessarily an unilateral instrument to mean but that the power to interpret it would have it mean ; and as such is not more potent in determining the action of the state than are the resolutions of the sobered man that he will not a^ain jjet drunk. 106 INTRODUCTION. But it is intended that in the union of races suffi- ciently unequal, so that the one has the abiUty to execute more than it can plan and the other the ability to plan more than it can execute, there is the assurance of its duration in the fact that in such state there can never be the proletariate. It is intended that every monogamic state is either patriate or proletariate ; that at its start it is patri- ate in its government by appointment of the propri- etary male parents of the families involved, which government must act for those appointing it and as such be patriate, but that from the instant of its start it tends to the proletariate. It is intended that the proletariate is that portion of the population of any state who would not sup- port the state but who would be supported by it ; that of this are those who have the elective fran- chise without the property to be affected by legisla- tion, and that of these are the parents who from misadventure, indolence or vice are without prop- erty, and the adult males of families whose proper- ties are yet it in the hands of male parents. That these also are proletariate who would have the gov- ernment, by imposts or bounties, favor their inter- ests at the expense of others, and those who, what- ever their wealth, will not invest in taxable property, and all generally who would rather ride than pull the Juggernaut, including children who would like to be rid of parents and parents who w^ould be rid of children, and women and men who would sup- INTRODUCTION. 107 press their sexual propensities or indulge them with- out contributing to the continuation of their race. Such the proletariate to which the originally pa- triate state tends, it is intended that the dissolution is at an early period inevitable ; that the tendency is not to make man better but to make him worse ; and not to make him continually more abundant in any state, but to extinguish his existence as from such cause has been extinguished the ancient peo- ples, Nineveh, Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Borne. And intended that the man possible is the best and most abundant man possible, it is intended that for reason of the proletariate, that man is not possi- ble in the monogamic mode of man ; but it is in- tended that he is possible in a compound mode of unequal races of man united in relations of inequality ; that such are the agamic and monogamic races suf- ficiently differentiated ; that such are the agamic ne- groes and monogamic and Anglo-Saxon whites lately in union in these Southern States ; that between races so different there is no miscegenation ; that both, however they may severally advance to higher planes of manhood, are relatively, to each other, on parallel planes, and the same as at the start, and as man and woman in union, however they may advance severally through ages of civilization, are in the same relations to each other. Of such state originally patriate there is no transition to the proletariate. The state of two such naturally differentiated beings there is the bi- lateral being, capable of a bilateral constitution of 108 INTRODUCTION. perpetual duration, and susceptive of instant en- forcement, in the injury to individual activity result- ing from every instance of its violation. In this there were none to become proletariate, or to ride upon the state, or to misdirect it, or to suspend the repro- duction of its population. Early marriages of whites and blacks were possible, and encouraged, as well as the most abundant progeny. And it is intended that in such state there is the possibility of the best and most abundant man ; and not only in this, the tendency to such abundant man, but, in the indefinite duration of such state, the time for the maturity of such man ; that, in this, man will not only continue the axis of nature as he now does in continuing him- self in nature, but will continue that axis to a higher stage of human nature, and so in every sense con- tinue nature. And intended that there is to be the man possible, it is intended that thus there will be the man possi- ble in continuation of nature, and of a nature of reality throughout the universe ; and this the nature of infinite being finite ; and this the nature of the word of God in force ; and this the nature of a gen- eral providence of life in nature to the takers of it possible, and these the stars, suns, planets, moons, meteorites, nebul* and comets of the celestial sphere ; and the forces, matters, plants, animals and man at this earth's surface ; and this the nature of a gen- eral providence of life in nature to the takers of it possible. That to every such nature there is in its life and nature the mandate that at its time and INTRODUCTION. 109 place it be its best and most, and this simply to man ; that at his time and place he can be but the man possible, and can see himself but as the man possible, and can see other natures but as — at their times and places — they be the natures possible ; that he has being but of life, and nature and volition but in being, and activity but of volition, and volition but of motive, and motive but of conditions inci- dent, wdthout which the strongest and wisest man were as inert as is the watch unwound ; and, — in his utmost capacities from conditions incident, — he is as incapable of seeing or making other natures differ- ent from what they are as is the watch of seeing or making other watches different from what they are ; and that thus there is not only in fact but to the science of man a nature of reality in life through- out the universe of which man is in continuation at this earth. And this the nature of an universe of force in resolution, and this the nature of God him- self in forces of such universe, and this the nature of religion in acceptance and practice by every na- ture of the word and will of God in force. And that thus man is in continuation of a nature of reality throughout the universe by deduction from the hy- pothesis of an universe of force the finite word of God ; and this that impersonal and transcendent cause and God to man as to other nature of this universe, demanding that he be his most and best and that he submit to the inequalities necessary to that end, as do lives in natures of animal, plant, earth and universe. ■-% 0032144571 i f \ \ !r ti« COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES This book is due on the date indicated below, or at the expiration of a definite period after the date of borrowing, as provided by the library rules or by special arrangement with the Librarian in charge. 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