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Letter to Editor
August 1, 1841
Plain Speaker
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
What is this article about?
Henry Mickel from Kinderhook praises the recipient's paper for its truthful plain speaking, rejects supporting church, state, and school, argues there is no individual property and advocates separation from the world to act on inner truth, requests first two issues, and sends one dollar. Dated July 9, 1841; additional dateline Braintree, Vt. June 1841.
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Kinderhook, July 9th, 1841.
Dear Friends—I have received your paper and like it very much. Plain speaking and acting is what is wanting. I know you speak the truth in your paper: the church, and state, and school I cannot support. You speak of individual property—that seems to me to be the root. There is no such thing as individual property: —I see and feel it to be so :—we must be separated from the world.
I know that we have nothing to do with effects: we have only to act out what is in us, and because it is in us. I want you to send me the first and second numbers if you have them. I now send you one dollar.
Yours for the truth,
HENRY MICKEL.
Braintree, Vt. June 1841.
Dear Friends—I have received your paper and like it very much. Plain speaking and acting is what is wanting. I know you speak the truth in your paper: the church, and state, and school I cannot support. You speak of individual property—that seems to me to be the root. There is no such thing as individual property: —I see and feel it to be so :—we must be separated from the world.
I know that we have nothing to do with effects: we have only to act out what is in us, and because it is in us. I want you to send me the first and second numbers if you have them. I now send you one dollar.
Yours for the truth,
HENRY MICKEL.
Braintree, Vt. June 1841.
What sub-type of article is it?
Reflective
Philosophical
Religious
What themes does it cover?
Religion
Morality
Social Issues
What keywords are associated?
Individual Property
Separation From World
Church State School
Plain Speaking
Inner Truth
What entities or persons were involved?
Henry Mickel
Dear Friends
Letter to Editor Details
Author
Henry Mickel
Recipient
Dear Friends
Main Argument
there is no individual property, and people must separate from the world to act out their inner truth; the writer cannot support church, state, or school.
Notable Details
Rejects Support For Church, State, And School
Sends One Dollar For First And Second Numbers Of The Paper