Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Thursday, August 30, 2012

History of American Socialisms By John Humphrey Noyes

Status: Completed

EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/?tfv89k8w24ldm3s
PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?bykzqcyjfe3l0cc

Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?4oly20u2toxk02u

Fix Notes:

Page (26): successfully

Neither can be successfuly embodied by men whose minds are not wide enough to accept them both.

Page (27): families

What they needed was to convert their churches into unitary fam-lies, and put them into unitary homes, where daily meetings and continuous criticism are possible;—and behold, this is Socialism!

Page (55): (Missing '.' before '—' to match others)

J. B. Herrick—

Page (59): probably

The moral at the close, inferring the impracticability of Communism, may prob-bly be accepted as sound, if restricted to non-religious experiments.

Page (84): enthusiasm

So Macdonald, with the enthuiasm of a true Socialist, on landing in this country in 1842 first sought out New Harmony.

Page (88): (Potential Error?)

Robert Owen is a remarkable character. In years nearly seventy-five: in knowledge and experience superabundant; in benevolence of heart transcendental; in honesty without disguise; in philanthropy unlimited; in religion a skeptic; in theology a Pantheist: in metaphysics a necessarian circumstantialist; in morals a universal excusionist; in general conduct a philosophic non-resistant;

Page (91): of

men and women who were spoiled for the world by once tasting or at least imagining the sweets af Communism, and would not be turned back by any number of failures.

Page (107): (Potential Error?)

Mr. Emerson’s lecture is doubtless reliable on the main point for which we quote from it—the Unitariar and Channing-arian origin of Brook Farm—but certainly supfiercial in its view of the substantial character and final purpose of that Community.

Page (148): (Most likely a scan error) Missing '.'

[...] that the afflatus must be strong enough to decompose the old family unit and make Communism the home-center

Page (173): embarrassment

This experiment did not fail through pecuniary embarassment.

Page (184): (Missing '‘')

On its banner was inscribed, To each, according to his capacity, and to each capacity according to its work.’

Page (191): division

This inquiry has given rise to our third divison, called theo-retico-practical architects of society.”

Page (202): Missing '“'

“Attractive Industry,” Compound Economies,” “Democracy of Association,” “Equilibrium of the Passions”

Page (203): constructing

Millions are now spent in constucting canals and railroads that scarcely pay for repairs.

Page (235): development

its constraint of millions to idleness and consequent dependence or famine for want of employment, and its failure to secure education and devolopment to the children growing up all around

Page (253): Pennsylvania

Having made this resolve, they looked not behind them, but freely contributed of their hard-earned means, and purchased eight hundred acres of fertile wood-land, in Monroe County, Pensylvania.

Page (283): (Potential Error?)

I boldy pronounce all partial attempts, short of such a beginning, a waste, and worse than a waste, of time and brain, blood and muscle, soul and body.

Page (299): THE and missing '.' at the end

THF MIXVILLE ASSOCIATION

Page (317): (Most likely a scan error) Missing '.'

I began to doubt whether it was much of an affair after all; but I pushed on, anxious at once to see the place

Page (334): (Most likely a scan error) Missing '.'

“The Phalanx has fee simple titles to many tracts of land, and a house in Warren, with which they will secure capitalists who choose to invest money, for the purpose of establishing some branches of manufacturing

Page (344): Brackets instead of parenthesis to match the rest of the book

(From a letter of N. C. Meeker, August 11, 1847.)

Page (366): February

An enthusiastic convention of Socialists was held in that city on the 22d of Februrary, 1844, at which interesting letters were read from Horace Greeley,

Page (404): Harbinger (matches the rest of the book)

[Letter to the Harbinger, August 15, 1845.]

Page (407): (Potential Error?) always

Tell H., of Beaver, to come and see us, and say to him that you have alway failed in depicting the comforts and pleasures of Association.

Page (412): ',' replaced with '.'

[From a letter in the Southport Telegraph,]

Page (414): ,. -> .,

We put in about twenty acres of spring crops, mostly potatoes, buckwheat, turnips, etc,. and have now one hundred acres of winter wheat in the ground.

Page (460): determined

Here, as elsewhere, individual opinion is free; but there are certain conditions, as we think, clearly indicated, which are necessary to the proper consideration of the question; and our view is that it is one that must be determned mainly by woman herself.

Page (554): probably

From a defect in the construction of the chimney, a spark from the stove-pipe had prob-bly communicated with the surrounding wood-work; and from the combustible nature of the materials, the flames spread with a celerity that made every effort to arrest their violence without effect.

Page (627): system

12.—The abolishment of the marriage sytem is involved in Paul’s doctrine of the end of ordinances.

Page (628): '.' was moved to after number

.14—The law of marriage “worketh wrath.”


Page (636): division

The present divison of labor between the sexes separates them entirely.

Page (639): consequences

Marriage makes a man responsible for the conse-qunces of his acts of love to a woman.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

A History of Money And Banking In The United States By Murray Rothbard

Status: Fixed
ISBN: 9780945466338

Fixed EPUB: https://mega.co.nz/#!XdwWgJgL!T2lSi1fbGpb8wfdFrQvnCHHcv3N7uHv55wFNoqlqn9o

Fix Notes:

  • 15 spacings fixed around '—'
  • 2 leftover '-'
  • fixed a wrong quotation
  • Fixed an accidental italic '('
  • Saturday, April 21, 2012

    America's Second Crusade By William Henry Chamberlin

    Status: Accepted on Mises (05.02.12)
    ISBN-10: 0865977070
    ISBN-13: 978-0865977075

    Initial PDF (16 unreadable pages): 25.9 MB
    My PDF (Bookmarked): 12.3 MB
    My EPUB: 452 KB

    Towards the end of the OCR stage, I requested a rescan of 16 pages which were unreadable, and I was promptly given them the next day! What great service from those who work at the Mises Institute!

    Mises.org: https://www.mises.org/document/5300/Americas-Second-Crusade
    Fixed PDF:

    Fix Notes: PDF Page (Actual Page)

    Page 287 (279 actual)
    Changed to "Czechoslovakia"
  • For Czecholovakia substitute Poland.

  • Page 337 (329 actual)
    Changed to "civilian"

  • The other is that military officers and cilivian officials

  • Touchups (EPUB):

    I added an hr (35%) tag before the Footnotes.  I believe it looks much nicer than what I was previously doing (an h2 "Footnotes" section).

    Touchups (PDF):

    I cleaned (almost) every page.  I got rid of lots of underlines/markings.

    New Scans of pages (PDF):

  • 313, 316, 317, 320, 321, 324, 325, 328, 329, 332, 333, 336, 337, 340, 341, 344
  • Friday, February 3, 2012

    From Bretton Woods To World Inflation By Henry Hazlitt

    Status: Near Finalization (v.99)
    ASIN: B00268XIF8

    The original PDF was extremely bloated at 48.79 MB. My PDF version has a better OCR, and I touched up a lot of the actual images to get rid of artifacts from the scanning process (cleaner look). It comes in at a whopping 2.47 MB (~5% the file size), and the EPUB comes in at a nice 185 KB.

    Things That Need To Be Done:
    • Need to find a high quality cover
    • Might need to touch up tiny spacing/CSS issues to make it look nicer

    Changelog:

    page 62
    • 2 quotation marks were reversed

    page 136
    mispelled "unnecessarily"
    • "The Bank, apart from its unncessarily large subscribed capital"

    page 178
    mispelled "responsibility"
    • "But, given a return of political responsiblity and courage,"

    EPUB: http://www.mediafire.com/?7654232wed9nk1d

    PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?qb5p4pmp6f2awam

    Original PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?fy7zz7tvvq970ff