At the American Memory Project I found this broadside that the LOC had scanned. The broadside was titled Moral substitute for war. International federation of nations under a cosmopolitan constitution. How the nations of the world could protect themselves against foreign invasion without the use of armies and navies.
At the bottom of the broadside is the following line: This is a brief synopsis of an address recently delivered by Prof. Henry Olerich before the Omaha Jacksonian Club and also before the Omaha Woman’s Club.
Curious about Olerich I ran a Google search and found a Nebraska Historical Society web page called A Martian Paradise in Nebraska?
The Historical Society page had this blurb Utopian novels, touting plans to help the common person lead a “better life,” were popular in the late 1800s. Henry Olerich, who moved to Omaha in 1902, wrote such works. His first, A Cityless & Countryless World, centered around a Martian who came to earth to teach earthlings how to create a paradise similar to the one on Mars. The paradise would include “communities” (rectangular tracts of land) on which “big houses” would be built, each accommodating a “family” of one thousand. Each member of the family would be required to work toward the greater good of the community. Although Olerich planned to develop one of his communities in Nebraska, he was never able to find the needed support. He continued to publish books promoting Utopian ideals until his death in 1927.
After reading the blurb I was interested to see a copy of A Cityless & Countryless World. The book was reprinted in 1971 and was available on Amazon for $30. (The original is selling for $350) This was just enough expense to keep me buying it at the time. Recently I ran another Google search and found that the Internet Archive had a full-text copy of the book that had been scanned by the University of California Libraries.
I find it neat that one scanning project at the LOC lead me to another resource scanned by another library. (University of California)
At the American Memory Project I found this broadside that the LOC had scanned. The broadside was titled Moral substitute for war. International federation of nations under a cosmopolitan constitution. How the nations of the world could protect themselves against foreign invasion without the use of armies and navies.
At the bottom of the broadside is the following line: This is a brief synopsis of an address recently delivered by Prof. Henry Olerich before the Omaha Jacksonian Club and also before the Omaha Woman’s Club.
Curious about Olerich I ran a Google search and found a Nebraska Historical Society web page called A Martian Paradise in Nebraska?
The Historical Society page had this blurb Utopian novels, touting plans to help the common person lead a “better life,” were popular in the late 1800s. Henry Olerich, who moved to Omaha in 1902, wrote such works. His first, A Cityless & Countryless World, centered around a Martian who came to earth to teach earthlings how to create a paradise similar to the one on Mars. The paradise would include “communities” (rectangular tracts of land) on which “big houses” would be built, each accommodating a “family” of one thousand. Each member of the family would be required to work toward the greater good of the community. Although Olerich planned to develop one of his communities in Nebraska, he was never able to find the needed support. He continued to publish books promoting Utopian ideals until his death in 1927.
After reading the blurb I was interested to see a copy of A Cityless & Countryless World. The book was reprinted in 1971 and was available on Amazon for $30. (The original is selling for $350) This was just enough expense to keep me buying it at the time. Recently I ran another Google search and found that the Internet Archive had a full-text copy of the book that had been scanned by the University of California Libraries.
I find it neat that one scanning project at the LOC lead me to another resource scanned by another library. (University of California)
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