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Stephen Pearl Andrews ( March 22 , 1812 - May 21 , 1886 ) was an American Individualist Anarchist and author of several books on the topic. Born in Templeton, Massachusetts , he went to Louisiana at age 18 and studied and practiced law there; appalled by slavery, he became an Abolitionist . Having moved to Texas in 1839 , he and his family were almost killed because of his abolitionist lectures and had to flee in 1843 . Andrews travelled to England where he was unsuccessful at raising funds for the abolitionist movement back in America. While in England, Andrews became interested in Pitman's new Shorthand writing system and upon his return to the U.S. he taught and wrote about the shorthand writing system. At the same time Andrews continued to give lectures on abolitionism. He also became interested in phonetics and the study of foreign languages, eventually learning 30 languages. By the end of the 1840s he began to focus his energies on utopian communities. He and fellow individualist Anarchist Josiah Warren (who was responsible for Andrew's conversion to radical individualism) established Modern Times in Brentwood, NY , ( 1851 ). Then, in ( 1857 ), he established Unity Home in New York City . By the 1860s he was propounding an ideal society called Pantarchy , and from this he moved on to a philosophy he called " Universology ", which stressed the unity of all knowledge and activities. QUOTE "Every variety of interpretation has been put upon my opinions, usually the least favorable which the imagination of the writer could devise, with a view, apparently, of cultivating still further the natural prejudice existing in the public mind against any one bold enough to agitate the delicate and difficult question of the true relations of the sexes, and the legitimate role which the Passions were intended to play in the economy of the Universe. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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