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Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City is a science fiction novel by Edward Douglas Fawcett first published in 1892. It remained out of print for over 100 years and has only recently been re-published.

• Hartmann the Anarchist
• Edward Douglas Fawcett
• His 1893 book was called Swallowed by an Earthquake

Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City​

The plot centers around Mr Stanley, a young moneyed gentleman who aims to stand for election as part of the Labour party in the early 20th century. Through his associations with many of London's most prominent socialists and anarchists, he encounters and befriends Rudolph Hartmann and 'goes along' with Hartmann's plan to attack London using his airship The Attila.

Much of London is destroyed by fire and shells in the beginning of their plans to replace civilization with anarchism:

• But how is the new order to take shape? How educe system from chaos?
• We want no more 'systems,' or 'constitutions' -- we shall have anarchy. Men will effect by voluntary association, and abjure the foulness of the modern wage-slavery and city-mechanisms.
• But can you expect the more brutal classes to thrive under this system. Will they not rather degenerate into savagery?
• You forget the Attila will still sail the breeze, and she will then have her fleet of consorts."
• What! You do not propose, then, to leave anarchy unreasoned?
• Not at once -- the transition would be far too severe. Some supervision must necessarily be exercised, but, as a rule, it will never be more than nominal.

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KD: You can't really make some of this stuff up, but I will just live it at that. For those who want to read this book, there you go:

• 1893 Hartmann the Anarchist: Or, The Doom of the Great City​

These books are up to $1k for the first edition. I was unable to find a PDF version of the author's second book Swallowed by an Earthquake. If you luck out, please post the link.

• If you end up reading either of these two books, please share your thoughts.

Related:

• Hindenburg: Was Zeppelin technology a threat to the 20th century?

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Sounds like a fanciful adventure. Cops and robbers.
I like "The Man Who Was Thursday" by Chesterton.

 

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Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City is a science fiction novel by Edward Douglas Fawcett first published in 1892. It remained out of print for over 100 years and has only recently been re-published.

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• Hartmann the Anarchist
• Edward Douglas Fawcett
• His 1893 book was called Swallowed by an Earthquake

Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City

The plot centers around Mr Stanley, a young moneyed gentleman who aims to stand for election as part of the Labour party in the early 20th century. Through his associations with many of London's most prominent socialists and anarchists, he encounters and befriends Rudolph Hartmann and 'goes along' with Hartmann's plan to attack London using his airship The Attila.

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Much of London is destroyed by fire and shells in the beginning of their plans to replace civilization with anarchism:

• But how is the new order to take shape? How educe system from chaos?
• We want no more 'systems,' or 'constitutions' -- we shall have anarchy. Men will effect by voluntary association, and abjure the foulness of the modern wage-slavery and city-mechanisms.
• But can you expect the more brutal classes to thrive under this system. Will they not rather degenerate into savagery?
• You forget the Attila will still sail the breeze, and she will then have her fleet of consorts."
• What! You do not propose, then, to leave anarchy unreasoned?
• Not at once -- the transition would be far too severe. Some supervision must necessarily be exercised, but, as a rule, it will never be more than nominal.

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KD: You can't really make some of this stuff up, but I will just live it at that. For those who want to read this book, there you go:

• 1893 Hartmann the Anarchist: Or, The Doom of the Great City

These books are up to $1k for the first edition. I was unable to find a PDF version of the author's second book Swallowed by an Earthquake. If you luck out, please post the link.

• If you end up reading either of these two books, please share your thoughts.

Related:

• Hindenburg: Was Zeppelin technology a threat to the 20th century?

I haven't read it yet, but it can be obtained on gutenberg.org as a complete html file with images:
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hartmann, the Anarchist, by E. Douglas (Edward Douglas) Fawcett

 

[JWW427]

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Date: 2019-10-02 22:04:26
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Interesting book considering the "1897 Airship Mystery" in America was 5 years later.
Maybe he was one of the airship pilots or investors.
JWW

 

[JimDuyer]

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Date: 2019-10-03 14:26:29
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Interesting book considering the "1897 Airship Mystery" in America was 5 years later.
Maybe he was one of the airship pilots or investors.
JWW

Supposedly it was invented first near Germany, in 1893 or 1894. I smell a rat.
Then a year or so later, H.G. Wells comes out with his picture of future man, which
looks exactly like what is now being reported as "grey aliens." Double rat smell coming off of that one.

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Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City is a science fiction novel by Edward Douglas Fawcett first published in 1892. It remained out of print for over 100 years and has only recently been re-published.

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• Hartmann the Anarchist
• Edward Douglas Fawcett
• His 1893 book was called Swallowed by an Earthquake

Hartmann the Anarchist or The Doom of the Great City

The plot centers around Mr Stanley, a young moneyed gentleman who aims to stand for election as part of the Labour party in the early 20th century. Through his associations with many of London's most prominent socialists and anarchists, he encounters and befriends Rudolph Hartmann and 'goes along' with Hartmann's plan to attack London using his airship The Attila.

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Much of London is destroyed by fire and shells in the beginning of their plans to replace civilization with anarchism:

• But how is the new order to take shape? How educe system from chaos?
• We want no more 'systems,' or 'constitutions' -- we shall have anarchy. Men will effect by voluntary association, and abjure the foulness of the modern wage-slavery and city-mechanisms.
• But can you expect the more brutal classes to thrive under this system. Will they not rather degenerate into savagery?
• You forget the Attila will still sail the breeze, and she will then have her fleet of consorts."
• What! You do not propose, then, to leave anarchy unreasoned?
• Not at once -- the transition would be far too severe. Some supervision must necessarily be exercised, but, as a rule, it will never be more than nominal.

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KD: You can't really make some of this stuff up, but I will just live it at that. For those who want to read this book, there you go:

• 1893 Hartmann the Anarchist: Or, The Doom of the Great City

These books are up to $1k for the first edition. I was unable to find a PDF version of the author's second book Swallowed by an Earthquake. If you luck out, please post the link.

• If you end up reading either of these two books, please share your thoughts.

Related:

• Hindenburg: Was Zeppelin technology a threat to the 20th century?

In the last image, above, notice that the people all wear Phrygian caps - Greek earthenware of antiquity depicts Amazonians and so-called "Scythian" archers with Phrygian caps. But even before that, it was the symbol for mysticism via the Mitra cult. The religion of Mithraism was inspired by Iranian worship of the Zoroastrian God Mithra. Talk about ancient knowledge - the Zoroastians are, according to our current "scholarly" wisdom-lies, from about 1000 BC or so - but the truth is that they go back to times prior to the Sumerian civilization. They were known for having a library of inventions whose makers no longer existed, and whose plans were not decipherable by them.

 

[AthroposRex]

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I haven't started reading it yet, but that airship sure reminds me of jabbas sail barge.