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Dr. Revilo

P. Oliver

701 Ohi o s t reet

Urbana.

I l l inois

Dear Revilo:

September 28;

1965

Just a short

note

to t e l l you how t h o r o u g h ~ I

enjqyed your review

of

Sinf,e ,·  s A T EOLOOICAL I NTERPPET

,\

TI

C N OF ACZRICA N HISTORY in the current

lunerican Op nion

.

Humanism,

of course,

is

the

"religion"

of

Halter IJppmann '

and Corliss tmnont, of ,;h

om the

l a t l·or i s a

bi

g whoel in the lunerican llumani*1;

Assoc

ia

t ion.

r

i,as

qu

i t

e

fascm'lted

by

1:1hat

,y

OU

,i

ra te

ab

out

the

iranscende

n

t a l i

s t

s ·

the

Secret

· Six . Obviously the Il luminati 11ere a t ·H

ork

in this count ry

a t

the

time

and r:lo::;t probably exe r t ing th e

i r infiuep.ce through Hegelian

g

roups

1.i..lre

the

St .

Louis Hov-ament

and

, the Concord Scho

o l of

Philosophy. They Here

I l so

wrl ng

through

the

more

rabid

Abolit ionist groups. I am

inclin

ed to be  eve t.'u .t HoraCe

.

Gree1e'J, founder

of

the

Nell

York Tribune in

I Shl) .

"as

an I l

lumiw,t i . Margaret

Fuller . his ·litera. j '

edi tor

(18hh-li6). had fllso been editor of the Dial, org

an

of

the

Transcendentalists. She

went to

1.0ndon

in

1846, met

Mazzlnf-tiiere

l

then

' 'lent to I ta ly ;;here

she

took part in the abortive Homan Revolution

in lB4tl.

Nazzini,

of

course. belonged to the

same international conspira

cy NSl'X

bel':nged

to and shutt1cd back and 'forthbetl leen London, Paris , Switzerland

and

n a ~

He ,;as kind of ·

I ta l ian

Lenin 11ho

never

rlade good.

Nnrgaret

Fuller , of course,

.- died :In a s Upl1reck with

her

I ta l ian husl;>and uho had made her a

Ha

rque,sa, t i le

returnin[; to the U.S.

Greeley.

as we ImO\' , ,Ja

r-

a gr ea t

admi er

of

Jolm

Brown.

He

had

pecullnr

people , l r i t lng

for I).i . ne1,spapor,

l i ke

Karl 11arx.

'1'ho

s t . I.ouis

Hovement

is particulatJ;r

interesting. I t

lias

founded by

VIill

iam

Torrey Ha r r i s , n

bel iever

in Phrenology r h o had

been

converted to Hegeliania

by Bronnon Alcot t . As Superintendent of schools

in

St .

Lollis,

he fo tmded the

Journa1 .Sl.t: ~ ~ _ 1 ; ; t .. h 1 : . o ~ . l \ r an

e .

gathered around hjJn a (;

roup

of

Hegelian · , .

"schol;:lrs"

inc

luding Henry C. Brom.eycr, Denton

J .

Snider, John G. Hoerner (who

took

part

in

the

1848

revolution

in

Genna.I\Y and wrote

for

Gree

l ey s

T

ribune) and

Thomas Davidson; .the

"i t inernnt

scholar" ,lilO

jus t

happened

to

f OU ld ·

the Fabian

Social ist mov<,

ment

:In London in lB8). farris became U.s.

Canminsioner

of I Iducation

in

lB89.

"He

labored espec).a l7y

to

' place e du

cation upon

a

psycholo i ea l

. bas is .

n

lefore

that ,

h m ~ e

e r ,

he had

moved from

:s

t .

Louis

to

Concord.

Hass. ,

whe

re

he

founded the Corr::ord School of Philosophy. The St . Louis } ovement begins in 1.867.

Just

11 fel1 threads Hhich

mgh

help us

;100

,e

the

la rg

e r fabric .

I

ha

ve

jUst

finished r e ~ d i n g

Prof .

Robison's PROOFS OF A CONSPI RA

CY,

vlh1ch

I th ink

He

VU8lft to

reprint

in a paperback edi t ion. Hould you be agreeabie to

do

ing

an IidlDdduction to this new

edit;ion?

. I

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Dear Sam:

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UBANA. NI

15 October 196

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