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Magazine. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the April 7, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 14) 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 by Hugh O. Pentecost (regarding the March 24, 1892 article "Is Charity Wicked?" by G. C. [Gaspar Christopher] Clemens - Mr. Pentecost writes, in part, "My nerves are such that I sometimes relieve my pain by doing something for the poor, but I am convinced that the next generation would be better off if all persons were hard enough to allow what is called the law of survival of the fittest to have uninterrupted operation"); lengthy poem "The Whip-Poor-Will" by American anarchist Dyer D. Lum; "Col. Robert G. Ingersoll and His Clerical Critics: From a Spiritualist's Standpoint" by Walter Howell; Diversions of Opinion by Hudor Genone [William James Roe] ("Was 'It' created or evolved?"); "Consciousness of God's Presence" by the Rev. Sidney G. Law; short "Jesus Laughed" by Frank T. Reid; "The Problem of Soul" by Lycurgus Emerick ("The immorality of the human soul, as a question, will become a scientific one and will be settled upon that basis and not the theological one"); Fiction - Chapter XX of "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; Correspondence; 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; scuffing and short closed tear along outer narrow fold; tiny corner chip to front cover; interior pages age-toned.

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 11, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 6) 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 "Mr. [Henry] Frank and the Society of Human Progress"; poem "An Esoteric Dream" by Harry B. Gill; article "The Messiah Idea" by Henry MacDonald ("Was Jesus a Messiah, or did he ever exist? Was he a total myth, or was he the germ of impossible ideas, afterward grasped by metaphysicians and made respectable by Greek philosophy?"); short article "A Model Colony" by Robert H. Cowdrey (on the Topolobampo Bay Colony, Mexico); short article "The Logic of Revolutions" by Bart Kennedy; short "A Word About Theosophy" by J. M. Latta, M.D.; article "Clear the Jungle" by Channing Burnz ("So, I say, if there is any good to be gotten from our legislatures it is to get them to set about undoing the old, meddling iniquities of their predecessors"); short article "The Other Side" by Albert Chavannes ("I agree fully with Mr. [Hugh O.] Pentecost, that from the appearance of the first man the world has been steadily growing pleasanter to live in, and that it is largely due to the efforts of the individual to throw off galling yokes, but I believe that he is mistaken when he denies the claims of the 'isms' to have helped along progress"); article "The Case of Carlyle W. Harris" issued by the Society of Human Progress; Correspondence (including a letter from Dyer D. Lum); Our Weekly News-Letter (progressive and freethought 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.