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Magazine. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the March 17, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 11) 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 9-1/8" 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 by Hugh O. Pentecost entitled "Concerning Mr. [Henry] Frank and the Divine Potentialities" (which begins, "In regard to Mr. Frank's article of last week, it only need be said that it was written without Mr. Frank having understood what I had previously written, and it was, therefore, not to the point in issue. For example: When I said that metaphysics and science are essentially different, I spoke of them only as methods of searching for truth"); "Origin of What is Called Christianity" by Henry MacDonald (which begins, "Until 'higher criticism' had demonstrated the late origin of the New Testament books, no authentic history of early Christianity was possible"); "Letter from the Rev. Sidney G. Law" (to Editor Hugh O. Pentecost); short "Jesus" by Gano Bryan; "Government by Aliens: An Answer to Bishop Coxe" by A.P. Rose ("Concluded from last week"); Fiction - Chapter XVIII of "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; Correspondence (including populist Edward P. Faxon and anarchist Herbert Foster); "The Cottage - 'Homes' of Rural England" by Frederick Verinder reprinted from the London 'Church Reformer' (which begins, "Over the greater part of rural England, it is still, unhappily, true, as Mr. Stubbs put it in 1878, that the laborer 'is obliged to live, or is willing (?) to live, in houses where the very first principles of morality, cleanliness, decency, modesty are impossible'"); Our Weekly News-Letter (news from various publications). A complete issue; former owner's name to upper right corner of front cover; covers light to moderately soiled, particularly along edge areas; tiny chip to upper and lower center corners (to blank margins only); interior pages age-toned.

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: Fair. 1st Edition. Offered is the January 7, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 1) 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 8-3/4" by 12-1/8" and containing 24 pages including front and rear covers. With eight pages of vintage advertisements, contents of this issue include: Editorial entitled "Hear the Other Side" on capital punishment (in an editorial from an earlier issue, Editor Hugh O. Pentecost protested "electrical killings" practiced in the state and named the Rev. Sidney G. Law as one of those who participate in the process; the Rev. Law's response is printed in full in this current issue, and Mr. Pentecost provides a lengthy response; including, "It is pleasant to know that Mr. Law did all he could to save the poor wretch who was roasted to death, but he gives not the slightest sign of abhorrence of the fact that he was roasted or of the shocking practice of avenging a murder by a judicial homicide"); lengthy poem "When I Am Dead" by Louise Farley Suddick; article "What is 'Higher Criticism'?" by Henry MacDonald; article "How Criminals Are Made" by Wm. Arch. M'Clean [William Archibald McLean]; article "Anarchy's Apostles - IV. Bakounine [Mikhail Bakunin] - The Organizer" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh]; Chapter XII of novel "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; article "The Blessings of Purity" by the Rev. Cater Totherich; "The Society of Human Progress: An Invitation to Radicals to Organize a New Movement" ("The following is the circular letter which is being mailed to many people who may be interested, and which is here printed for the information of the readers of the Twentieth Century" [signed by several prominent persons, including Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Samuel Gompers, Edgar Fawcett, Thaddeus B. Wakeman, Wm. B. Du Bois, and Helen H. Gardener] along with "Some Additional Letters of Approval"); article "Some Southern Institutions of Today" by Frank K. Foster reprinted from the Boston publication "Labor Leader" ("The most interesting feature of our sight-seeing was a trip to the Pratt Mines, some six miles from Birmingham [Alabama], where over 1,000 convicts are farmed out under the convict lease system to work in the mines"). A complete issue; former owner's name and several squiggles in pencil to front cover; covers light to moderately soiled; front covers show moisture spot to lower right corner area; 3" by 2" chip to lower right corner of first inside page (advertisements page); pages light to moderately age-toned.

Magazine. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Offered is the February 4, 1892 (Vol. VIII No. 5) 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 by Hugh O. Pentecost entitled "The Rev. Mr. Law's Letter" (on Rev. Sidney G. Law; select passages from the Editorial read: "The letter of the Rev. Sidney G. Law - will be found in this issue in another column" - "Our columns are always open to clergymen for the purpose of presenting the claims of Christianity" - "I am sorry that Mr. Law does not directly discuss the question of capital punishment, for that is the issue with which the discussion began" - "Our friend appears to think that if there is no truth in the supernaturalism of the Christian religion, men would be better dead than alive, and hence that, in that case, it was a kindly act to kill those men in Sing Sing"); poem "If I Should Die Tonight" by Clara M. Saunders; "A Letter From the Rev. Sidney G. Law" (to Editor Hugh O. Pentecost); article "The Conservative Middle" by W. W. Carrington; article "Anarchy's Apostles - VI. - The Poets" by American anarchist C. L. James [Charles Leigh]; Chapter XV of the novel "The Journal of a Scientist During a Voyage to the Planet Mars" by Samuel H. King; "The Crime of War" (a lecture delivered by Henry Frank at the Masonic Temple on behalf of The Society of Human Progress); Correspondence (including a letter from R. Congar on The Horrors of Anarchism, which begins, "Anarchists are a sorry set. Every patriotic citizen who takes pride in being governed by millionaires has nothing but contempt for them"); "Our Weekly News-Letter" (commentary on progressive, freethought, and radical news). A complete issue; former owner's name in pencil to upper right corner of front cover; covers lightly soiled; interior pages age-toned.