1891 · Santa Rosa
by Harris, Thomas Lake
Santa Rosa: Fountaingrove Press, 1891. 75, [iii]p., wraps browned and slightly chipped on the lower edge, unopend as usual else very good condition. Includes a two page appendix. Fountaingrove library. Social series, vol. 1, no. 1. This work, growing out of a San Francisco lecture, suggested Harris' new visionary America, in which he stressed an American religious socialism with "rings" of socialists "nucleated not around a common greed, but around a common God." Cooperation was posited on the one hand against what Harris termed the "labor-snakes, the bloated parasites," of class struggle-minded labor leaders, and on the other hand against the sentimental consciousness of the church. (Inventory #: 226198)