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From Pat Deveney's database:
Open Road, The. Calvert ( |
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| Pennsylvania State University; University of Michigan (microfilm); University of Illinois; National Library of Australia. | |
| Open Road V1 N1 Sep 1908 | |
| Open Road V2 1909 | |
| Open Road V3 1909 | |
| Open Road V4 1910 | |
| Open Road V5 1910 | |
| Open Road V6 1911 | |
| Open Road V7 1911 | |
| Open Road V8 1912 | |
| Open Road V9 1912 | |
| Open Road V10-12 1913-15 | |
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The Open Road was Bruce Calvert's little magazine, published from Griffith, Indiana, from about 1908, and it belongs to the simple-living wing of American New Thought. Its own pages name its company — Elbert Hubbard, Elizabeth Towne, William Walker Atkinson, Horatio Dresser — the self-culture and mind-power set of the period's small-press world. Calvert braided their language of success and the silence with a back-to-nature programme of deep breathing, plain vegetarian diet and drugless health, and with a Whitmanesque individualism from which the magazine takes its title. Behind that runs a Tolstoyan strain: an admiration for the man the world would not let live in peace, an argument with socialist readers about what the coming order would actually look like, and a conviction that reform begins with how a person chooses to live rather than with how society is organised. Its frequent talk of the brotherhood of man is humanitarian rather than occult, and the magazine is best read as a document of the simple-life movement. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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