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David Croly was a devoted [[Auguste Comte|Comtist]], who attempted to popularize the concepts of [[Positivism]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLr_AwAAQBAJ|last1=Levy|first1=David|title=Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive|date=2014|publisher=[[Princeton University]] Press|location=New Jersey|isbn=978-0691612690|pages=22-24}}</ref>. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet ''Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro'', which turned out to be a hoax<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kadish |first1=Philip |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/opinion/kadish-lincoln-hoax/ |title=The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln |work=[[CNN]] |date=February 18, 2014 }}</ref>. | David Croly was a devoted [[Auguste Comte|Comtist]], who attempted to popularize the concepts of [[Positivism]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLr_AwAAQBAJ|last1=Levy|first1=David|title=Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive|date=2014|publisher=[[Princeton University]] Press|location=New Jersey|isbn=978-0691612690|pages=22-24}}</ref>. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet ''Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro'', which turned out to be a hoax<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kadish |first1=Philip |url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/15/opinion/kadish-lincoln-hoax/ |title=The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln |work=[[CNN]] |date=February 18, 2014 }}</ref>. | ||
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| + | * [https://archive.org/details/miscegenationthe00crol Miscegenation; the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro], 1863 | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/seymourblairthei03crol Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction], 1868 | ||
| + | * [https://books.google.com/books?id=JF5kKM29EVYC A positivist primer: being a series of familiar conversations on the religion of humanity], 1876 | ||
| + | * [https://archive.org/details/glimpsesoffutur00crol Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions as to the Drift of Things], 1888 | ||
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Revision as of 17:39, December 24, 2015
David Goodman Croly was the father of the progressive writer Herbert Croly, co-founder of The New Republic magazine.
David Croly was a devoted Comtist, who attempted to popularize the concepts of Positivism[1]. He was also involved in the creation of a pamphlet Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, which turned out to be a hoax[2].
Works
- Miscegenation; the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and Negro, 1863
- Seymour and Blair, their lives and services with an appendix containing a history of reconstruction, 1868
- A positivist primer: being a series of familiar conversations on the religion of humanity, 1876
- Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions as to the Drift of Things, 1888
See Also
References
- ↑ (2014) Herbert Croly of the New Republic: The Life and Thought of an American Progressive. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 22-24. ISBN 978-0691612690.
- ↑ "The race-mixing hoax that dogged Lincoln", CNN, February 18, 2014.