Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear Agitator for the Spirit Land

Name: Remarkable Life of John Murray Spear Agitator for the Spirit Land
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ISBN: 9780268022006

ISBN-10: 0268022003

ISBN-13: 9780268022006

Edition: 2006

Authors: John Benedict Buescher

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John Murray Spear was one of nineteenth-century America's most interesting characters. A leading social agitator against slavery and capital punishment, Spear also became the nation's most flamboyant spiritualist, inventor of "spirit machines," and advocate of free love. In his captivating biography, John Buescher brings to life Spear's superlatively odd story. Born in 1804, John Murray Spear began his career as a Universalist minister. Later he was a colleague of William Lloyd Garrison and Theodore Parker in the abolitionist movement and worked as an activist among the New England reformers and Transcendentalist such as Bronson Alcott, Lydia Maria Child, and Dorothea Dix. In mid-life Spear…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date: 9/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 380
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Death of Death



Resist Not Evil



Ithuriel's Spear



Most Inhumanly Outraged



The Prisoner's Friend



An Agent of No Society



Launched into Eternity



Urgings of the Spirit



The Neighborhood of the Miraculous



The Wonder of the World



Association of Beneficents



The New Motor



Telepathic Towers



The Mother of the Electrical Infant



The Great Spiritual Revelation of the Age



Wombomic Processes



The New Motor Mobbed



A Raft of Inventions



Order of the Patriarchs



Performances of the Dead



The Home Domain



Whatever Is Desired



A Point of Immense Moment



Simple Human Chemistry



The Harmonial Cavity



Empire of the Mother



Spearism Gone to Seed



Sacred Order of Unionists



The Fabric of Society



A Most Pernicious Vice



Commingle Yet More Freely



Radical Questions to Agitate the Mind



More Joys Than Most



All Shades of Opinion



Cast Off This Frail Outer Form


Notes


Index