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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898 (search)
Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898 Author; born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., March 26, 1850; was educated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., and also studied in Germany. Returning home he read law, and was admitted to the bar, but never practised. he became an editorial writer on the New York Evening post, but soon afterwards retired from journalism to devote himself to fiction. His works include Six to one; A Nantucket Idyl; Dr. Heidenhoff's process; Miss Ludington's sister; his greatest effort. Looking backward, or 2000-1887, a work treating of government socialism; and lastly, Equality (1897). Several communities were established on his ideal in the United States and Mexico, but all were short-lived. He died in Chicopee Falls, Mass., May 22, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nationalism, (search)
Nationalism, The doctrine in the United States that the general government should exercise a larger control over affairs of national importance, as for instance: (1) control of telegraphs, telephones, and express companies; (2) nationalization of railroads; (3) ownership of mines, oil and gas wells; (4) control of heating, lighting, and street-car service of cities, all carried on in the interest of the general public and not for individuals or corporations; in other words, for use and not for profit; (5) children to be educated until seventeen years of age; child labor prohibited, etc. Bellamy's novel, Looking backward, 1888, expresses these views.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Socialism, (search)
ReichstagNov., 1881 Great mass-meeting held in Cooper Union, New York City, to honor the memory of Karl Marx (died March 14, 1883）March 19, 1883 William Morris, poet, author of the Earthly paradise, H. M. Hyndman, H. H. Champion, and John Burns, become leaders of the Socialistic League, formed1886 Bellamy's Looking backward published.1888 Quite a large number of clubs were organized in various parts of the country soon after the publication of Mr. Bellamy's book, but few survived in 1901.ReichstagNov., 1881 Great mass-meeting held in Cooper Union, New York City, to honor the memory of Karl Marx (died March 14, 1883）March 19, 1883 William Morris, poet, author of the Earthly paradise, H. M. Hyndman, H. H. Champion, and John Burns, become leaders of the Socialistic League, formed1886 Bellamy's Looking backward published.1888 Quite a large number of clubs were organized in various parts of the country soon after the publication of Mr. Bellamy's book, but few survived in 1
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 24: on the natural disapproval of wealth (search)
fs of the nation would rapidly gather in that town, and all honest and frugal life would be at an end. To invest the money in novel enterprises, even for the public good, might be almost as hopeless; because the whole theory of social progress is still so imperfectly worked out that the first attempts must for years be failures. No wonder that the rich man, even if conscientious, is puzzled, and, if fresh from the reading of Howells's Altruria, yet postpones his actual experiments until Edward Bellamy and Henry George have reconciled their warring projects. What socialists find it hard to recognize is that personal wealth rarely comes by accident, but in most cases by natural leadership, by skill, or by inheritance from skill. Of course the rich man uses the laws of nature and the general progress of society, but the trouble is that he often uses them with an ability which his neighbors cannot supply in his place. Corporations do not pay salaries of twenty thousand dollars becaus
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 25: the complaint of the poor (search)
one expected to see a proposal to take up collections for them in Sunday-schools or by penny-in-a-slot boxes. Since then, moreover, the maximum figure of wealth has increased so rapidly that it haunts the imagination, especially of the poor. All the old theories, as that wealth would be limited, in this country, by the absence of primogeniture, or checked by cutting off the old sources of supply, such as the India trade-all these have vanished. Then the question recurs, for those who are poor and philosophers at the same time, what is the outcome to be? It is almost as difficult to reconcile the principles of republican society with the existence of billionaires as of dukes. Meanwhile, as to the question of outcome, the most courageous theorizers differ fundamentally. Henry George and Edward Bellamy agree as to the disease, but prescribe remedies almost absolutely opposite. It is perhaps fortunate that it is so, for it gives people time to open their eyes and to think. 1896
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 31: the prejudice in favor of retiracy (search)
g be published until after death. This explains also why their own works often seem to authors so remote and worthless; they feel as an apple-tree might feel, if it were human, towards a barrel of its own apples of last season. When to all this is added a woman's lingering tradition of the seclusion due to her sex, it is not strange if authors of that sex hide themselves under initials or feigned names, and decline to publish autobiographies. It is to be observed that those who, like Mr. Bellamy, put into type their dreams of an ideal future state, do not make it clear to us which way we are tending, whether to greater publicity or greater seclusion. Perhaps the more we are destined to have in common, the more we shall take refuge in what we can preserve of retiracy. It is to be noticed that Fourier, the arch-organizer, in the midst of his elaborate groups and intricate series, still recognizes the rights of individuality here and there; and preserves, amid all the inexorable
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
atrophy. January 9, 1888 Do pay proper attention to William Austin, of whom Duyckinck has some account. I think his Peter Rugg had marked influence on Hawthorne. At any rate, he anticipated Hawthorne in what may be called the penumbra of his style-passing out of a purely imaginative creation through a medium neither real nor unreal and so getting back to common earth. Brockden Brown could not do this, but always had to come back with a slump upon somnambulism or ventriloquism; and Edward Bellamy, who has I think more of the pure Hawthorne invention than any of our men, fails always in the same way. Austin's English travels, which I have, are racy and remarkable, especially for the period (1804). I knew his daughter and granddaughters, all uncommonly fine women. Cambridge, May 13, 1903 It is a great pleasure to hear from you again, and all the more since you are seventy, as you allege, and so practically coeval with me, since I, please note, am only seventy-nine and a half
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XVI: the crowning years (search)
lege Association was because 1 thought it very undesirable that colleges should ignore the very word as they almost uniformly did then; Harvard being almost the only one which allowed it even to be mentioned. . . . As for the name Socialist, I never either claimed or disclaimed it, regarding it as merely a feeler in the right direction and refusing any prominent place in the movement. I remember that Dr. Edward Hale and I both took this same position in a similar organization formed by Edward Bellamy in his time. His social creed, as stated in a letter dated 1859, would have equally fitted the succeeding years:— Every year makes me, at least, more democratic, with less reverence for the elect and more faith in the many. During the winter of 1911, strength gradually failed, though interest in the affairs of life never flagged. In February, he read a paper on Dickens, with all his old spirit, before the Round Table, and in April, he attended a meeting of the Authors' Club in
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Afternoon landscape: poems and translations, Heirs of time. (search)
Heirs of time. Inscribed to Edward Bellamy. Aucun homme ne peut aliener sa souverainete, parcequa il ne pent abdiquer sa nature ou cesser daetre homme ; et de la souverainete de chaque individu nait, dans la societe, la souverainete collective de tous ou la souverainete du peuple, également inalienable. Abbe de la Mennais, Le Livre du Peuple (1837). From street and square, from hill and glen Of this vast world beyond my door, I hear the tread of marching men, The patient armies of the poor. The halo of the city's lamps Hangs, a vast torchlight, in the air; I watch it through the evening damps: The masters of the world are there. Not ermine-clad or clothed in state, Their title-deeds not yet made plain; But waking early, toiling late, The heirs of all the earth remain. Some day, by laws as fixed and fair As guide the planets in their sweep, The children of each outcast heir The harvest-fruits of time shall reap. The peasant brain shall yet be wise, The untamed pulse grow ca
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
se the poor, the poor did not so hopelessly repine. The solution of the riddle of the painful earth through the dreams of Henry George, through the dreams of Edward Bellamy, through the dreams of all the generous visionaries of the past, seemed not impossibly far off. Preface dated July, 1909. In this mood Howells's theme comp popularity by Judge Albion Winegar Tourgee's A Fool's errand (1879), a fiery document upon Reconstruction in the South; and there were such diverse pieces as Edward Bellamy's much-read Utopian romance Looking backward (1888), dainty exotics like Blanche Willis Howard's Guenn a wave on the Breton Coast (1884) and Arthur Sherburne ry should be at the mercy of the lawless. In the meantime a vision of a new and radically different social and industrial order was popularized in 1888 in Edward Bellamy's Looking backward. See also Book III, Chap. XI. The book was a romance in which the hero, after going to sleep in 1887, awakes in the year 2000 to find v
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