8/21/2019 Correspondence between Sam Blumenfeld and Revilo and Grace Oliver http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/correspondence-between-sam-blumenfeld-and-revilo-and-grace-oliver 1/5 Dr. Revilo P. Oliver 701 Oh i o street Urbana. Illinois Dear Revilo: September 28; 1965 Just a short note to tell you how t h o r o u g h ~ I enjqyed your review of Sin f,e ,· s A T EOLOOICAL I N TERPPET ,\ TI C N OF A CZRICA N HISTORY in the current lunerican Op nion . Humanism, of course, is the "religion" of Halter IJppmann ' and Corliss tmnont, of ,;h om the lat l· or is a bi g whoel in the lunerican llumani*1; Assoc ia tion. r i,as q u it e fascm'lted by 1:1hat , y OU ,i rate ab out the iranscende ntali st s · the Secret · Six. Obviously the Illuminati 11e re at · H ork in this count r y at the time an d r:lo::;t probably e xe rt ing th e ir infiuep.ce through Hegelian groups 1.i..lre the St. Louis H ov-ament an d , the Concord Sch o ol of Philosophy. They Here Ilso wrl ng through the more rabid Abolitionist groups. I am inclin ed to b e eve t.'u .t HoraCe . Gree1e'J, founder of the N ell York Tribune in I S hl). "as an Il lumiw,ti. Margaret Fuller. h is · litera. j' editor (18hh-li6). had fllso been editor of the Dial, or g an of the Transcendentalists. She went to 1.0ndon in 1846, met Mazzlnf-tiiere l then ' 'le nt to Italy ;;here she took part in the abortive Homan Revolution in lB4tl. Nazzini, of course. belonged to the same international conspir a cy NSl'X bel ' : nged to and shutt1cd back and ' forthbetlleen London, Paris, S witzerland and n a ~ He ,;as kind of · Italian Lenin 11ho never rlade good. Nnrgaret Fuller, of course, . - died :In a s Upl1reck with her Italian husl;>and uh o h ad made her a Ha rque,sa, t ile returnin[; to the U.S. Greeley. as we ImO\' , ,Jar- a g r e at admi er of Jolm Brown. He had pecullnr people ,lritlng for I).i . ne1,spapor, like Karl 11arx. '1'ho st. I.ouis H ovement is particulatJ;r interesting. It lias founded by VIil l iam To r rey H arris, n believer in Phrenology r h o had been converted to Hegeliania by Bronnon A lcott. As Superintendent of schools in St. Lollis, he fo t m d ed the Journa1 . Sl.t: ~ ~ _ 1 ; ; t .. h 1 : . o ~ . l \ r an e . gathered around hjJn a (; roup of H egelian · ,. "schol;:lrs" inc luding Henry C. Brom.eycr, Denton J. Snider, John G. H oerner (who took part in the 1848 revolution in Genna.I\Y and wrote for Gre e ley s T ribune) and Thomas Davidson; . the "itinernnt scholar" ,lilO just ha p pe ned to f OU ld · the Fabian Socialist mov<,ment :In London in lB8). farris became U.s. Canminsioner of I Iducation in lB8 9. "He labored espec). al 7y to ' place e ducation upon a psycholo ieal . basis. 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 threa ds Hhich mgh help us ;100 , e the lar g er fabric. I ha ve jUst finished r e ~ d i n g Prof. Ro bison's PROOFS OF A CONSPI RACY, vlh1ch I think He VU8lft to reprint in a paperback edition. Hould you be agreeabie to do ing an IidlDdduction to this new edit;ion? . I