First published 1943
The Mainspring of Human Progress
The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Henry Grady Weaver
- First published
- 1943
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 280
- ISBN
- 9781933550763
- Publisher
- Talbot books 1947. FEE
- License
- Believed to be in the public domain: this work was published in the 1932-1963 window when US copyright had to be renewed after 28 years, and no renewal was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Not independently confirmed.
Liberty, ethics & philosophy History & biography
What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism.
With incredible erudition and historical understanding, Henry Grady Weaver tells the true story of progress for the human race with acute understanding of the fundamental cause: freedom itself. It is this that has led to unimaginable creativity and the spreading and creation of wealth that could not have been imagined centuries earlier.
The book was written in 1943. Leonard Read of the Foundation for Economic Education was among those who saw the glories of the book, and reprinted it for decades, distributing hundreds of thousands of copies. Several generations count this book as the very one that started an intellectual revolution.
Prepare too for some revisionist history as regards the Islamic contribution.
Weaver's text sweeps you along, inspires and teaches like few others. It is a classic by any definition, newly available from the Mises Institute.
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- Is The Mainspring of Human Progress free to download?
- Yes. The complete 280-page PDF and EPUB downloads directly from this page (4.6 MB). There is no signup, no account and no paywall.
- How long is The Mainspring of Human Progress?
- 280 pages, 15 chapters, and about 64,803 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Is The Mainspring of Human Progress in the public domain?
- Believed so. US works published between 1932 and 1963 kept copyright past 28 years only if someone filed a renewal, and no renewal for this work was found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. That is a search result rather than a legal opinion: a renewal filed under a shortened title or a different claimant would not have been found. Some copies carry a rights notice, which records the original claim and does not extend a term that lapsed.
- Who wrote The Mainspring of Human Progress?
- Henry Grady Weaver (1889–1949) worked as a mechanic, salesman, and draftsman before becoming director of customer research for General Motors. It was for that work that he was placed on the cover of the November 14, 1938 issue of Time magazine.
What's in it
15 chapters · 64,803 words · free to read here
- THE AUTHOR AND THE BOOK
- PART ONE–COMPARISONS & CONTRASTS
- PART TWO–THE OLD WORLD VIEWS
- Chapter 8 THE FIRST ATTEMPT
- Chapter 9 COMPROMISE
- Chapter 10 THE SECOND ATTEMPT
- Chapter 11 PRELUDE TO THIRD ATTEMPT
- Chapter 12 THE THIRD ATTEMPT
- Chapter 13 ROOTS OF REVOLUTION
- Chapter 14 THE UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL
- Chapter 15 THE NEW MODEL
- Chapter 16 UNPLANNED PLANNING
- Chapter 17 THE REVOLUTION SPREADS
- PART FOUR–FRUITS OF FREEDOM
- APPENDIX REFERENCES
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