The blog software I use has its problems. I need to update it, for one. Hundreds of criminals* litter this site with thousands of pseudo-comments, while an actual reader, Roderick Long, couldn't add a comment to my recent post, Spenceriana. Here's what he emailed me, after failing to post at this site:

Back when I had a run of Spencer articles online, several different
people emailed me to ask if I could track down the source of the Spencer quote that occurs in the Alcoholics Anonymous book. Alas, I can't now remember whether I succeeded in identifying the source or not. But when I saw Spencer book of interest to alcoholics I knew it would have something to do with that quote, and sure enough when I clicked on the link I saw that it did.

Admittedly this doesn't do much to resolve the puzzle, though. For why would the mere fact that a putative quote from Spencer occurs on p. 570 of an Alcoholics Anonymous book be sufficient reason for an alcoholic to want to plow through the entire Data of Ethics?

Indeed.

I gather that some eBay sellers will take any hook to sell their wares.

But once again Spencer is placed in the weirdest of contexts by people who just don't bother to read or appreciate.

. . .

* I call anyone who litters someone else's property for their own convenience, a criminal. I don't really care about the law in this designation. I'm in the good libertarian camp, now, calling criminals criminals according to my judgment, not according to positive legislation.

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