Pentecost Hugh Contributors Include Charles (7 results)

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 31, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 13) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorials by Hugh O. Pentecost entitled "Ideality of Medical Science" and "Brain and Character" (discussing the cases of William Nelson and Darwin Dingman, both of whom suffered brain damage; "These stories, and scores of others like them which the books contain - would seem to indicate that mind and character are determined by the formation of the brain and the possession of a certain other organ. If such should ultimately prove to be the case, what would become of the mental and the moral aristocracy? What would become of that hypothesis which regards mind and character as existences apart from the body?"); "An Unfair Criticism" by Michael Flurscheim (on criticisms received in an article in the December 16, 1891 issue of Henry George's publication "Standard" by its Editor Louis F. Post); "The Diamond Rule: A Short Study" by W. W. Carrington (thoughts on the golden rule; "'Do to others as you'd have them do to you.' This, its most zealous exponents admit, must be taken spiritually; for should others be treated literally as we wish to be, they might be deplorably killed. So they say the rule really means: 'Do to others mutatis mutandis as you'd have them do to you'; that is, do to others as you'd have them do to you if you were they and they were you and you in their fix, they in yours. Now, we think this intelligible, but on analysis it turns out about as luminous as the most opaque mud"); "Mr. [Hugh O.] Pentecost's Collapse" by Henry Frank of the Society of Human Progress ("It is a good indication that an opponent is reaching the thin end of his argument when he exclaims as Mr. Pentecost does in his last reply to me: 'Mr. Frank does not understand me' and 'Mr. Frank is a lunatic'"); Fiction - Chapter XIX of "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; Our Weekly News-Letter; lengthy "A Reply to W.C. [William Charles] Owen's Criticism of [Charles] Sotheran's 'Horace Greeley and Other Pioneers of American Socialism'" by the author himself, Charles Sotheran [who was one of the first members of the Theosophical Society]. A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled, particularly along edge areas; interior pages age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 14, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 15) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Hugh O. Pentecost; "Christianity and Slavery" by B. F. [Benjamin Franklin] Underwood; "An Open Letter to Dr. [Charles Henry] Parkhurst" by J. E. Homans ("You are a priest of a religion which, beyond talk, has done nothing whatsoever to oppose the unjust conditions by which an aristocratic class are allowed to grind down, deceive, demoralize, and ruin their fellow man"); "The Suppression of Sunday-Schools" by William Jones; "The Oath of Allegiance" by Harry B. Gill; "Anarchy's Apostles: VIII. [C. L. Charles Leigh] James - The (Il)logician" by Henry Cohen; Fiction - Chapter XXI of "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; "With the Ideal" by Eleanor F. Baldwin; Correspondence (including lengthy letter from Wm. B. DuBois to Mrs. Frank Leslie [Miriam Leslie]); "Reigns of Terror - Christian and Anti-Christian" by Charles Bradlaugh (reprinted from the "National Reformer" of August 31, 1861); Our Weekly News-Letter. A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled, particularly along edge areas; small corner chip to front cover; interior pages age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 21, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 3) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial "Hear the Other Side" (on various topics, including, "It is said that in the Tennessee mines, where convicts have been put to work in place of discharged 'free' miners, troops are guarding the works, under the Stars and Stripes, with rifles and cannons, and that the 'free' miners are quietly arming with Winchesters and Gatling guns"); article "Anarchy's Apostles - V. [Ralph Waldo] Emerson - The Metaphysician" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh]; Chapter XIV of novel "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; "The Society of Human Progress: A Meeting at Chickering Hall" (with complete text of the lengthy lecture given by Henry Frank, where he states, "For the sake of man we are therefore willing to abrogate God - for we know that if there be a God we shall only know him by knowing man. If you call this deifying man, call it so, and say if you please that man is our God"); "The Working of the Yeast" (short excerpts from several publications, including the Cincinnati Herald: "The daily press is crowded with accounts of the vices and crimes of mankind, but never a word as to their cause and cure"). A complete issue; former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled; pages lightly age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 7, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 1) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-3/4" by 12-1/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial entitled "Hear the Other Side" on capital punishment (in an editorial from an earlier issue, Editor Hugh O. Pentecost protested "electrical killings" practiced in the state and named the Rev. Sidney G. Law as one of those who participate in the process; the Rev. Law's response is printed in full in this current issue, and Mr. Pentecost provides a lengthy response; including, "It is pleasant to know that Mr. Law did all he could to save the poor wretch who was roasted to death, but he gives not the slightest sign of abhorrence of the fact that he was roasted or of the shocking practice of avenging a murder by a judicial homicide"); lengthy poem "When I Am Dead" by Louise Farley Suddick; article "What is 'Higher Criticism'?" by Henry MacDonald; article "How Criminals Are Made" by Wm. Arch. M'Clean [William Archibald McLean]; article "Anarchy's Apostles - IV. Bakounine [Mikhail Bakunin] - The Organizer" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh]; Chapter XII of novel "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; article "The Blessings of Purity" by the Rev. Cater Totherich; "The Society of Human Progress: An Invitation to Radicals to Organize a New Movement" ("The following is the circular letter which is being mailed to many people who may be interested, and which is here printed for the information of the readers of the Twentieth Century" [signed by several prominent persons, including Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Samuel Gompers, Edgar Fawcett, Thaddeus B. Wakeman, Wm. B. Du Bois, and Helen H. Gardener] along with "Some Additional Letters of Approval"); article "Some Southern Institutions of Today" by Frank K. Foster reprinted from the Boston publication "Labor Leader" ("The most interesting feature of our sight-seeing was a trip to the Pratt Mines, some six miles from Birmingham [Alabama], where over 1,000 convicts are farmed out under the convict lease system to work in the mines"). A complete issue; former owner's name and several squiggles in pencil to front cover; covers light to moderately soiled; front covers show moisture spot to lower right corner area; 3" by 2" chip to lower right corner of first inside page (advertisements page); pages light to moderately age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 18, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 7) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Hugh O. Pentecost (the topics are: "The Russian Famine"; "The Regulation and Restriction of Prostitution"; "Nineteenth Century Tortures" [on the prison at Dannemora, known as the Clinton Correctional Facility]; "The Law"); article "Mr. [Hugh O.] Pentecost's Criticism" by Henry Frank (from the Society of Human Progress); article "Anarchy's Apostles - VII. - The American Anarchists" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh]; Chapter XVI of novel "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; lengthy letter to the editor of the "Sun" headlined "A New Pantheistic Movement" from Henry Frank (Society of Human Progress); "Our Weekly News-Letter" (progressive news). A complete issue; former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled, particularly along edge areas; interior pages age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the December 10, 1891 (Vol. VII No. 24) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 9" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial "Hear the Other Side" containing commentary on several news items (including "It is said that the militia of Tacoma, Washington, are on a strike. They were not paid for their work in coercing miners into submission in a recent strike, and now they refuse to obey the orders of their superiors. It is a short-sighted policy for the monopolists not to pay their professional killers"); article "Agnosticism As It Is" by freethinker B. F. Underwood [Benjamin Franklin] (which begins, "There is the known, the unknown, and the unknowable. The amount that we know, however great compared with what was once known by man, is infinitesimally small in comparison with what may be, with what will be, known in the future"); article "Anarchy's Apostles - II. [Pierre-Joseph] Proudhon - The Agitator" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh]; short article "Why Do Agnostic Societies Lack Financial Support?" by Henry MacDonald; Chapter VIII of novel "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; article "The Blessings of Spiritual Hunger" by the Rev. Cater Totherich; Correspondence (including letters from Clinton Loveridge, W. C. [William C.] Owen, and D. Webster Groh); article "The Newspaper Curse" from the Real Estate Record and Guide; "The Working of the Yeast" (quotes from various sources, i.e., from Kate Field, reading in part, "One good effect of short skirts, if ever generally adopted, will be to force women to learn how to walk well"). A complete issue; former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled showing short grease strain; lengthy closed tear to outer narrow spine; corner chip to rear cover; pages light to moderately age-toned.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 4, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 5) issue of "Twentieth Century: A Weekly Radical Magazine" edited by Hugh O. Pentecost and published by the Twentieth Century Publishing Company out of New York City. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 12-1/4" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial by Hugh O. Pentecost entitled "The Rev. Mr. Law's Letter" (on Rev. Sidney G. Law; select passages from the Editorial read: "The letter of the Rev. Sidney G. Law - will be found in this issue in another column" - "Our columns are always open to clergymen for the purpose of presenting the claims of Christianity" - "I am sorry that Mr. Law does not directly discuss the question of capital punishment, for that is the issue with which the discussion began" - "Our friend appears to think that if there is no truth in the supernaturalism of the Christian religion, men would be better dead than alive, and hence that, in that case, it was a kindly act to kill those men in Sing Sing"); poem "If I Should Die Tonight" by Clara M. Saunders; "A Letter From the Rev. Sidney G. Law" (to Editor Hugh O. Pentecost); article "The Conservative Middle" by W. W. Carrington; article "Anarchy's Apostles - VI. - The Poets" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh]; Chapter XV of the novel "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; "The Crime of War" (a lecture delivered by Henry Frank at the Masonic Temple on behalf of The Society of Human Progress); Correspondence (including a letter from R. Congar on The Horrors of Anarchism, which begins, "Anarchists are a sorry set. Every patriotic citizen who takes pride in being governed by millionaires has nothing but contempt for them"); "Our Weekly News-Letter" (commentary on progressive, freethought, and radical news). A complete issue; former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front cover; covers lightly soiled; interior pages age-toned.