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Stephen Pearl Andrews was born on March 22, 1812 in Templeton, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Elisha and Wealthy Ann (Lathrop) Andrews.
The strong moral energy characteristic of the family, shown by his father and brothers and above all by his nephew, Elisha Benjamin Andrews, appeared in Stephen Pearl Andrews as a more radical reforming spirit.
At the age of nineteen he joined his elder brother, Thomas, in New Orleans, and studied law.
Removing to Houston, Texas, in 1839, within three years he rose to an outstanding position at the bar but became very unpopular because of his fearless opposition to slavery. In 1843 his house was mobbed, and he, with his wife and infant son, managed to escape only by a dangerous twenty-mile night drive across flooded prairies.
He immediately went to England in the endeavor to raise there the money necessary for the purchase of the slaves in the form of a loan from Great Britain to Texas. Lord Aberdeen, Lord Palmerston, and other influential men were at first favorably inclined toward his project but dropped it when Andrews was repudiated by Ashbel Smith, Texan Chargé d'Affaires. If Andrews's efforts on behalf of anti-slavery had thus failed, there were at least other philanthropic enterprises to be undertaken.
During his stay in England, he became enthusiastically interested in the short-hand system of Isaac Pitman and determined to introduce it in America. He returned to Boston and at once opened a school of phonography.
In 1847 he moved to New York, added spelling reform to the list of his interests, edited two magazines printed in phonetic type, the Anglo-Saxon and the Propagandist, and, in collaboration with Augustus F. Boyle, compiled and published The Comprehensive Phonographic Class-Book (1845) and The Phonographic Reader (1845) each of which ran to sixteen editions within ten years.
He was active in stimulating interest in foreign languages at a time when little progress had been made by American schools in that direction. In 1854 he brought out his Discoveries in Chinese; or, the Symbolism of the Primitive Characters of the Chinese System of Writing as a Contribution to Philology and Ethnology and a Practical Aid in the Acquisition of the Chinese Language; later he devised an international language that he called Alwato--a forerunner of Volapük and Esperanto (Primary Grammar of Alwato, 1877).
So far were these various undertakings from exhausting Andrews's energies, however, that in his own view they were all entirely subsidiary to his great achievement, the establishment of nothing less than "Universology, " a deductive science of the universe. He had worked at this intermittently ever since his Louisiana days, and it was at last formulated in The Basic Outline of Universology (1877), a vast chaotic volume which remains one of the curiosities of philosophical literature.
Because of the semi-anarchistic character of the ideal society of which he dreamed--which he called the "Pantarchy"--Andrews, in his later years, became a leader among the radical groups in New York City. The Colloquium, a society for free discussion, was started by him in 1882 and he was a prominent figure in the Manhattan Liberal Club.
He died still deeming himself the founder of the most important of all the sciences, still supposing that the social millennium, for which he had striven in such various ways, was close at hand.
Despite being not favorable during his life, he was a notable person in politics, and prolific as a writer. A linguist of amazing ability, he reputed to be the master of thirty-two languages, including Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Chinese. Andrews was one of the first to use the word "scientology". The word is defined as a neologism in his 1871 book The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato: The New Scientific Universal Language. In the 1870s Andrews promoted Joseph Rodes Buchanan's Psychometry besides his own Universology predicting that a priori derived knowledge would supersede empirical science as exact science. Andrews was also considered a leader in the religious movement of Spiritualism. The Anarchist Rudolf Rocker called Andrews a significant exponent of Libertarian Socialism in America.
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Andrews called himself a Spiritualist.
From an early age Andrews was an ardent abolitionist.
Like most of the nineteenth century individualist anarchists, and unlike the anarcho-communists, Andrews supported the right of employment and wage labor. However, he believed that, in the system within which he was living, individuals were not receiving a wage commensurate with the amount of labor they exerted.
Because of the semi-anarchistic character he dreamed of the ideal society.
Quotations:
"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. "
"In the absence of any readiness on the part of the public to know the truth on the subject, false, extravagant and ridiculous notions have flooded the country in its stead. "
"I reject and repudiate the interference of the State, precisely as I do the interference of the Church. "
"A grand social revolution will occur. Tyranny of all kinds will disappear, freedom of all kinds will be revered, and none will be ashamed to confess that they believe in the Freedom of Love. "
He married in New Orleans in 1835. His wife and child's names are unknown.
