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Infidels,
Freethinkers, Humanists, and Unbelievers |
Andrews,
Stephen Pearl (1812-1886) |
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Pearl Andrews was an American individualist anarchist. Born in Templeton,
Massachusetts, he went to Louisiana at age 18 and studied and practiced
law there; appalled by slavery, he became an abolitionist. Having
moved to Texas in 1839, he and his family were almost killed because
of his abolitionist lectures and had to flee 1843. He went off to
England where he failed at his scheme to raise funds to free slaves
in America. |
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He became
interested in Pitman's new shorthand writing system and on his return
to the USA he taught and wrote about this new passion while continuing
his abolitionist lectures. He also became interested in phonetics
and the study of foreign languages, eventually learning 30 languages.
By the end of the 1840s he began to focus his energies on utopian
communities. He and fellow individualist anarchist Josiah Warren
(who was responsible for Andrew's conversion to radical individualism)
established Modern Times in Brentwood, NY, (1851). Then, in (1857),
he established Unity Home in New York City. By the 1860s he was
propounding an ideal society called Pantarchy, and from this he
moved on to a philosophy he called "universology", which
stressed the unity of all knowledge and activities. |
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