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W R I T I N G S or JOSIAH WARREN EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY THE PRACTICAL ANARCHIST Blank Page AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors THE PRACTICAL ANARCHIST Writings of Josiah Warren Edited and with an Introduction by CRISPIN SARTWELL FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK 2011 Copyright © 2011 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or ac curacy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of elec tronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Warren, Josiah, 1798-1874. The practical anarchist: writings ofJosiah Warren I edited and with an introduction by Crispin Sartwell.-1st ed. p. cm.- (American philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3370-0 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8232-3372-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) L Warren, Josiah, 1798-1874. 2. Anarchism-United States. 3. Utopian socialism-United States. I. Sartwell, Crispin, 1958- II. Title. HX843.7.W27 2011 335' .83092-dc22 2011013452 Printed in the United States of America 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 First edition Contents Acknowledgments IX Introduction 1 Equitable Commerce 54 The Peaceful Revolutionist 99 "Notebook D" 124 True Civilization 139 Narrative of Practical Experiments Ephemera and Miscellanea 219 Early Writings 219 "From the March of Mind" 220 "Improvement of the Machinery of Law" 222 Modern Education 225 Against Compulsory Education 230 Written Music Remodeled 231 "A Few Words to the Writer in a Paper Called the Circular on the Sovereignty of the Individual" 235 ''Manifesto'' 237 "My Dear Sir" 242 Open Letter to Louis Kossuth 246 Simplicity 249 { vii } Vl l l CONTENTS Appendixes A. Chronology of Warren's Life 253 B. American Individualist Anarchists of the Nineteenth Century 264 C. American Utopias 2 6 8 D. Josiah Warren: An Annotated Bibliography 273 Notes 281 Index 291 Acknowledgments A summer grant from Dickinson College helped to fund research in collections and to obtain photocopies. I thank Dickinson for that and many other forms of support. My work on Warren has pig gybacked on the exemplary research of Shawn Wilbur. Dana Ward's "Anarchy Archives" website gave me my first real contact with War ren's texts, and earlier versions of some of texts reprinted here, in cluding versions typeset by Warren, can be found there. The Wisconsin Historical Society, the Indiana Historical Society, the La badie Collection at the University of Michigan, the Houghton Library at Harvard University, and the Working Men's Institute at New Har mony, Indiana, were of extraordinary aid in obtaining the materials contained in this book. Finally, I want to express my admiration for Josiah Warren: a half-cracked monomaniac but also an omni-compe tent human being. I admire his style of anti-leadership, based on anti charisma: too reticent to tell you how to live. Rarely have extreme idealism and extreme realism been so idiosyncratically or so compel lingly combined. It is a combination we may require yet. lX

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