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Periodical: The Nationalist [Boston]

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Nationalist, The.
The Nationalization of Industry and the Promotion of the Brotherhood of Man.
1889-1891
Boston, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: National Educational Association. Editor: Henry Willard Austin; John Storer Cobb. Succeeded by: The New Nation
1/1, May 1889-April 1891. 32 pp.

The journal was the product of the Nationalist Club of Boston. The notice in Notes and Queries, December 1891, says that the journal was "Devoted to those matters which will pave the way to the realization of Edward Bellamy's views as set forth in that romantic work 'Looking Backward.' Also the nationalization of industry." Cobb was one of the first vice presidents of the Theosophical Society, and the membership of the Nationalist Clubs in the Northeast disproportionately consisted of Theosophists, spiritualists, and old reformers of various stripes. Contributions by Bellamy, Abby Morton Diaz, Henry Austin, Thadeus B. Wakeman, Cyrus F. Willard, John Ransom Bridge, et al. On the demise of this journal its work was taken up by the New Nation, edited by Bellamy himself, which lasted until 1894.

Other Sources:Brown University.
Issues:Nationalist V1 1889
Nationalist V2 1889-1890
Nationalist V3 1890-1891
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Nationalist (Boston, 1889–1891) was the organ of the Nationalist Clubs that formed around Edward Bellamy's 'Looking Backward,' and it is a utopian-socialist political magazine rather than an occult one. Its columns argue for the nationalization of industry — federal ownership and operation of business, equal work and equal compensation for all — framed as a 'religion of brotherhood' that gave the movement its ethical charge. It appears in an esoteric corpus largely because Theosophists were conspicuous among the early Nationalists, but the paper's own subject is political economy and social reconstruction. The occult recall panels misfire on it badly: their 'control' is federal control and their 'brotherhood' is civic solidarity, not spirits or adepts.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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