The Online Library of Liberty Website in 2010
Dr. David M. Hart
Director of the OLL Project
[January 14, 2011]

Summary of New Material Added to the OLL in Calendar Year 2010

• Quotations - 48 quotations were added to "Quotations about Liberty and Power" (bringing the total since 2004 to 282)
• Reading Lists - 13 reading lists were added (bringing the total to 120)
• Forum essays - 28 items were added to the Forum (bringing the total to 858)
• Titles- 73 volumes (54 titles) were added to the Library (bringing the total to 1,288, of which 1,036 are in HTML and thus also appear on the PLL)
• 9 new Liberty Fund titles were also added (bringing the total to 219)
• 9 audio books were created

Detailed List of New Content Added in 2010 [Below]

• Forum
• Reading Lists
• New Titles
• Audio Books
• Quotations about Liberty and Power

Highlights of the Year

• the improved, more elegant, more efficient control panel for entering new quotes of the week
• the addition of the collection of quotations to the 50th Anniversary edition of the PLL
• the study guides for the expanded Images of Liberty and Power section
• the selection of the OLL website to the Library of Congress “Minerva” web archive project
• the addition to the OLL of the Liberty Fund edition of Tocqeville's Democracy in America
• the completion of the Lysander Spooner online project

New Features added in 2010

1. January 2010 - the OLL joined in celebrating the LF's 50th Anniversary year (see below for details)
2. January 2010 - a control panel for the creation of quotations of the week was added to the admin section. There is now a new section in the OLL to display quotes, which are sortable by theme or date.
3. January 2010 - we began a trial of creating audio books from plain vanilla HMTL versions of our titles using computer generated speech. This was originally down by hand but can now be done much more quickly using the improved simple HTML generator installed in December.
4. February 2010 - the 50th Anniversary Edition of the Portable Library of Liberty data DVD was launched. It contains 1,002 full text books in EBook PDF format and 36 hours of audio (the Intellectual Portrait Series). A new featureof the PLL is a collection of Quotations about Liberty and Power. A new randomly selected quotation is placed on the front page every time it is refreshed. 4,000 copies of the PLL were produced and given away in 2010.
5. August 2010 - the launch of an ePub format version of all titles converted to XML. A complete list is available here, or individual ePub titles can be downloaded from the books ToC page.
6. August 2010 - we started an OLL Facebook page to promote the quote of the week and newly added titles, and to raise awarenss of the OLL in the Facebook community
7. November 2010 - we expanded the existing section on Images of Liberty and Power - we now create detailed study guides on selected images and promote this on the front page
8. December 2010 - a plain vanilla version of the HTML files has been created for vision impaired users (the text can be more easily read out loud by computers) or for personal E-Book creation. An audio version of the quote of the week also exists to assist vision impaired users of the site. We now have three areas we we can provide assistance to sight impaired users of the site: the audio version of the quote of the week; audio books; and plain vanilla HTML version of the books

Awards and Recognition

• May 2010 - the Cato Institute mentioned the OLL in their blog resulting in 500 requests for the PLL DVD in a couple of days
• June 2010 - the OLL website was selected by the Library of Congress to be archived for the future use of researchers in their Minerva Project. The LOC stated that this was to to collect and preserve material "of historical importance to the Congress and to the American people" for future generations.

Celebrating the LF's 50th Anniversary

• the anniversary logo was placed in the main banner on all pages across the site.
• there is a page under Home/About Liberty Fund/50th Anniversary which summarizes the info about PFG, LF, and how the OLL is celebrating 2010. These are
  • the 50th Anniversary Edition (the 5th) of the PLL data DVD
  • the new Quotations about Liberty and Power feature
  • some new Reading Lists which I have called the 50th Anniversary Anthologies of LF Books. These are Reading Lists which highlight LF's publishing efforts over the decades. We have begun with the Glasgow Ed. of the works of Adam Smith; the Sraffa ed. of the workls of David Ricardo; and the LF ed. of the works of Ludwig von Mises.
• we include the LF's anniversary as part of the Anniversaries of Note section
• we created timelines of the life of PF Goodrich and the History of Liberty Fund 1960-2010
• the creation of Reading Lists for some of the 50th Anniversary Conferences:
  • Freedom and Power - the first ever LF conference
  • Seminar on Power - held in 1965
  • Exchange

Statistics

Future plans

We intend to work on the following projects in the coming year:

1. Tracts on Liberty by the Levellers and their Critcs (1638-1659) - to continue getting ready for publication a seven volume collection of Leveller Tracts. This is proving to be quite difficult because of the editing needed to correct the large number of "illegible characters" which result from transcribing 17thC texts.
2. The Economist - we are exploring how best to convert microfilm of the first 10 years of The Economist magazine as image quality is sometimes quite poor. The contributions of Wilson, Spencer and Hodgskin during this period will be the focal point, as will the magazine's writings on free trade and deregulation.
3. The Independent Whig (1720-1721) - a 4 volume collection of Trenchard and Gordon's writings from the predecessor of Cato's Letters. This is part of a larger project to get online more writings by Thomas Gordon and other 18thC Commonwealthmen, such as collections of tracts by Gordon and Trenchard and the very lengthy commentaries and discourses on Gordon's tranlations of Tacitus and Sallust.
4. The Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat - to get ready for the online publication of the first volume of Bastiat's writings (6 vols. are planned). We have been adding considerable material to accompany the volumes, such as an expanded timeline and chronology, glossaries and biographies of the leading free market economists of Bastiat's day, detailed tables of contents for the entire project (inlcuding a comparative table of contents for both the French language and LF's English editions), a guide to the images we have of Bastiat and Cobden - "Monuments to Two 19thC Free Traders: Bastiat and Cobden". We plan to add to this material and link it where applicable to our new online edition.
5. To further improve our collection of books in ePub and other formats for reading on portable reading devices.We have developed a new method of converting the XML into a cleaner and more standards compliant ePub format to make this process better and more efficient. We need to remove the final bugs and launch it.
6. further expansion of the section on Images of Liberty and Power in order to improve the visual dimension of the OLL website. Two larger projects are the following:
   1. The Imagery used by Thomas Hollis in his publishing projects - this will become a more detailed study guide about the imagery and design aspects of the books he published as part of his "Library of Liberty" in 1760s.
   2. The Images of the Earl of Shaftesbury - the LF edition of Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of Men, Manners, and Opinions featured the detailed designs he created to accompany the original edition (12 in total). Many people do not understand the complexity and richness of the symbols and emblems he used to highlight many of the ideas in his book. We plan to write a study guide which both explains the meaning of the symbols and provides links to the individual passages which the images were designed to illustrate. This page from the OLL shows an example of what can be done - "The Earl of Shaftesbury on Liberty and Harmony".
7. to get the "Liberty Matters" bi-monthly online discussion up and running. We have the first essay completed (by Eric Mack on Locke's theory of property) but have not yet selected appropriate commentators. This protect was delayed by the need to complete vols 1 & 2 of the Bastiat translation project.

Detailed Description of New Content added in 2010

28 New Items were added to the Forum (total 858 items) (RSS):

1. Archive: a compilation of all our Quotes about Liberty & Power
2. Timeline: The History of Liberty Fund 1960-2010
3. Timeline: Life and Work of F. Bastiat
4. Timeline: Life and Work of H. Spencer
5. Anniversaries of Note in 2010
6. Essays on Philosophy: Confucius: Influence and Doctrines
7. Essays on Philosophy: Mencius: Opinions and Influence
8. Philosophy: Heineccius and Turnbull on Natural Law
9. Essays: List of Bastiat's works in chronological order
10. Essays: ToC of Liberty Fund's edition of Bastiat's Works (English)
11. Bibliographies: History of English Law
12. Biographies: Mencius: A Life
13. Bio: Sketch of Life of Alexander Pope
14. Economics: Selgin on Free Banking
15. Political Theory: Tocqueville's Democracy in America
16. Literature: Business in English Literature
17. Key Document: 1736: Brief Narrative of the Trial of Peter Zenger
18. Obituary: Manuel Ayau (1925-2010)
19. Video: Disastrous Economic Fallacies (Atlas)
20. Video: Free Trade (Atlas)
21. Images: The Divine Right of Kings or Regal Tyranny? Thomas Hobbes (1651) vs. John Lilburne (1647)
22. Images: Monuments to Free Trade: Bastiat and Cobden
23. Images: The Earl of Shaftesbury on Liberty and Harmony
24. Images: The People and the Ruling Elite in Caricatures (Wade and Daumier)
25. Images: Shaftesbury's Illustrations for Characteristicks (1732)
26. Images: Washington and Napoleon in their Study
27. Images: Word clouds for Locke, Mill, and Mises
28. Images: Cato and Republican Liberty

13 new Reading Lists were added (total 120 items) (RSS):

1. Interdisciplinary: New LF Books for 2006, 2007, 2008
2. Interdisciplinary: New Economic School of Georgia Winter Academy
3. Interdisciplinary: Classic Works Collection I
4. Interdisciplinary: Seminar on Power
5. Interdisciplinary: Adam Smith on Liberty and Propriety
6. Interdisciplinary: The Works of Lysander Spooner
7. Interdisciplinary: Emerson and Mill on Property & Self-reliance
8. Interdisciplinary: 50th Anniversary Anthology: The Work of Mises
9. Interdisciplinary: 50th Anniversary Anthology: The Work of Adam Smith
10. Interdisciplinary: 50th Anniversary Anthology: The Work of David Ricardo
11. Political Theory: Mill and Stephen on Liberty
12. Law: Liberty and the Constitution in the Work of Lysander Spooner
13. Law: Liberty, the Papal Revolution, and the Law Merchant

82 new volumes were added to the Library (of which 73 were OLL items and 9 were LF books) (total 1,287 items, 1,035 in HTML format) (RSS):

1. A Source Book for Mediaeval History. Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age (1905)
2. Lao Tzu, The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Taoism. Part I: The Tao Teh King. The Writings of Kwang Ze Books I-XVII, trans. James Legge (Oxford University Press, 1891).
3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Works, vol. 4 (Recreations of the German Emigrants, Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship) (1885)
   
4. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe’s Works, vol. 5 (W. Meister’s Travels; Elective Affinities) (1885)
5. The Chinese Classics: Vol. 1. The Life and Teachings of Confucius (Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean) (1875)
6. The Chinese Classics: Vol. 2 The Life and Teachings of Mencius (1875)
7. St. Augustine, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Vol. 3 (St. Augustin on the Holy Trinity, Doctrinal Treatises, Moral Treatises) (1887)
8. Buddha, The Gospel of Buddha (1894)
   
9. Nassau William Senior, Three Lectures on the Transmission of Precious Metals from Country to Country and The Mercantile Theory of Wealth (1828)
10. Liberty Fund Books Autumn/Winter 2010 Catalog (The 50th Anniversary Edition)
11. Sumner, History of Banking, vol. 2 (1896)
12. Gilgamesh, An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic (1920)
13. Selgin, The Theory of Free Banking (1988)
14. Catalogue of the Guillaumin Librairie (1847-77)
15. Catalogue of the Félix Alcan and Guillaumin Librairies (August 1907) (PDF only)
16. Catalogue of the Guillaumin Librairie (1849) (PDF only)
17. Catalogue of the Guillaumin Librairie (1847) (PDF only)
18. Catalogue of the Guillaumin Librairie (May 1866) (PDF only)
19. Bastiat, Lettres d’un habitant des Landes (1877)
20. Lysander Spooner, The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner (1834-1886), in 5 vols. (2010) (PDF only) - in chronological order
21. Shorter Works & Pamphlets of Lysander Spooner, 2 vols. (1834-1884)
22. Senior, Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (1852)
23. Thierry, The Historical Essays and Narratives of the Merovingian Era (1845)
24. 899 titles available in ePub format
25. Dante, The Divine Comedy, 3 vols. (1321) - English only HTML
26. Molinari, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare (1849) (corrected HTML)
27. John Locke, Encouragement of Irish Linen Manufacture (1697) - PDF only
28. John Locke, Proposed Poor Law Reform (1697) - PDF only
29. John Jay, The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, 4 vols. (1893)
30. Herbert Spencer, An Autobiography, 2 vols. (1904)
31. Frédéric Bastiat, Armonias Economicas (1858) - PDF only
32. Ludwig von Mises, Die Entwicklung des gutsherrlich-bäuerlichen Verhältnisses in Galizien (1772-1848) (1902) - PDF only
33. Wilhelm von Humboldt, Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Gränzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen (1792) - PDF only
34. John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon, A Collection of Tracts, 2 vols. (1751)
35. Alexander Pope, Complete Poetical Works (1903)
36. The Parallel Bible. New Testament (KJV) (1885)
37. The Parallel Bible. New Testament (Revised Version) (1885)
38. The Parallel Bible. Old Testament (Revised Version) (1885)
39. The Parallel Bible. Old Testament (KJV) (1885)
40. The Parallel Bible. Old and New Testaments (KJV and Revised Version) (PDF only) (1885)
41. Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust), The Works of Sallust (Gordon’s Discourses, Cicero’s Orations against Catiline) (1744
42. John Wade, Appendix to the Black Book (1834) (1834)
43. John Wade, The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State, Courts of Law, Representation, Municipal and Corporate Bodies (1832 ed.) (1832)
44. Napoléon Bonaparte, The Code Napoleon: or, the French Civil Code (1827)
45. Napoléon Bonaparte, Code civil des français. Édition originale et seule officielle (1804)
46. Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power (2010)
    1. Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power: Washington and Napoleon in their Studies
    2. Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power: The People and the Ruling Elite (Wade and Daumier)
    3. Study Guides on Images of Liberty and Power: The Divine Right of Kings or Regal Tyranny? (Hobbes and Lilburne)
47. George Washington, The Writings of George Washington, 14 vols. (1889) - vol. 1
48. Frédéric Bastiat, Oeuvres complètes de Frédéric Bastiat (1st ed. 1854-55) (1854) - 6 vols.
49. William Findley, Observations on “The Two Sons of Oil” (1812 ed.) (1812)
50. William Findley, History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania (1796)
51. Joseph Addison, Cato. A Tragedy (1713 ed.) (1713
52. Viscount James Bryce, The Holy Roman Empire (revised ed.) (1873)
53. James Otis, Considerations of Behalf of the Colonists. In a Letter to a Noble Lord (1765)
54. James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)

9 New Liberty Fund Titles were added online:

1. Representation of Business in English Literature (2009)
2. Heineccius, A Methodical System of Universal Law (1738)
3. Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Historical-Critical Edition, 4 vols. (2010)
4. Frohnen, The American Nation: Primary Sources (2008)
5. Chamberlin, America’s Second Crusade (1950)
6. Vattel, The Law of Nations (2008)
7. Audio: Adam Smith and the Wealth of Nations (2005)
8. Sir Frederick Pollock, The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I, 2 vols. (1898)
9. Liberty Fund Books Autumn/Winter 2010 Catalog (The 50th Anniversary Edition)

9 Audio Books were created

1. John Milton, editor: Sir Richard C. Jebb Areopagitica (Jebb ed.) 1664
2. Desiderius Erasmus, translator: Thomas Paynell The Complaint of Peace 1521
3. William Dyer Grampp Economic Liberalism, vol. 1 The Beginnings 1965
4. William Dyer Grampp Economic Liberalism, vol. 2 The Classical View 1965
5. Thomas Hodgskin An Essay on Naval Discipline 1813
6. Frédéric Bastiat, translator: Dean Russell, introduction: Walter E. Williams, foreword: Sheldon L. Richman The Law 1850
7. William Dyer Grampp The Manchester School of Economics 1960
8. Lysander Spooner No Treason. No. I 1867
9. Edmund Burke A Vindication of Natural Society

Quotations of the Week in the OLL:

48 new Quotations about Liberty and Power were added (total 282):

• 48 new quotations were added in 2010 bringing the total to 282 (see list below)
• the quotations feature was added to the 50th Anniverary edition of the PLL data DVD
• see a list of all quotations on the OLL website

The purpose of the "quote of the week" (or "Quotations about Liberty and Power") is to highlight one of the OLL texts on the front page with a topical or interesting quote and direct users to read further. Some of the quote of the week features are the following:

• introduction
• audio version of the quote (computer generated voice)
• brief quote
• link to full quote
• link to previous quotes
• liinks to related material on the OLL (author, topic)

At the end of 2009 I compiled all of the quotations into a single 500 page PDF file (11 MB PDF) to create a small book called "Reflections on Liberty and Power." I have not redone this to include the new ones for 2010.

The 50th Anniversary edition of the Portable Library of Liberty data DVD includes a past quote of the week randomly displayed on the front page.

The list of quotations can be sorted by theme or by date.

Total no. of quotations up to December 15, 2010 = 282.

• 2010 - 48
• 2009 - 48
• 2008 - 39
• 2007 - 32
• 2006 - 36
• 2005 - 45
• 2004 - 34

Categories:

1. Colonies, Slavery, and Abolition
2. Economics and Free Trade
3. Food and Drink
4. Law
5. Literature and Music
6. Money and Banking
7. Odds and Ends
8. Origin of Government
9. Parties and Elections
10. Philosophy
11. Politics and Liberty
12. Presidents, Kings, Tyrants, and Despots
13. Property Rights
14. Religion and Toleration
15. Science
16. Sport and Liberty
17. Taxation
18. War and Peace
19. Women's Rights

Quotations added in 2010 (48)

1. (13 December, 2010) Jefferson’s preference for “newspapers without government” over “government without newspapers” (1787)
2. (6 December, 2010) Thomas Gordon on how the “Spirit of Party” substitutes party principles for moral principles, thus making it possible for the worst to get on top (1744)
3. (29 November, 2010) Shaftesbury on the need for liberty to promote the liberal arts (1712)
4. (22 November, 2010) Mises on the gold standard as the symbol of international peace and prosperity (1949)
5. (15 November, 2010) Sidney argues that a People’s liberty is a gift of nature and exists prior to any government (1683)
6. (31 October, 2010) Spencer on voting as a poor instrument for protecting our rights to life, liberty, and property (1879)
7. (18 October, 2010) Auberon Herbert on compulsory taxation as the “citadel” of state power (1885)
8. (11 October, 2010) Bastiat asks the fundamental question of political economy: what should be the size of the state? (1850)
9. (4 October, 2010) Bentham on the proper role of government: “Be Quiet” and “Stand out of my sunshine” (1843)
10. (20 September, 2010) The State of New York declares that the people may “reassume” their delegated powers at any time they choose (1788)
11. (13 September, 2010) Trenchard on the dangers posed by a standing army (1698)
12. (6 September, 2010) Milton on the ease with which tyrants find their academic defenders (1651)
13. (23 August, 2010) Bruce Smith on the misconceived and harmful legislation produced by voting as an inevitable though temporary case of “measles” (1887)
14. (16 August, 2010) Spencer on voting in elections as a screen behind which the wirepullers turn the sovereign people into a puppet (1882)
15. (9 August, 2010) John Jay on the pretended as well as the just causes of war (1787)
16. (2 August, 2010) Wicksteed on the subjective theory of value and on opportunity costs (1910)
17. (20 July, 2010) Sumner criticizes the competing vested interests and the role of legislators in the “new democratic State” (1887)
18. (12 July, 2010) Georg Jellinek argues that Lafayette was one of the driving forces behind the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)
19. (4 July, 2010) Jefferson’s list of objections to the British Empire in his first draft of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
20. (29 June, 2010) Kirzner defines economics as the reconciliation of conflicting ends given the existence of inescapable scarcity (1960)
21. (21 June, 2010) Mises on human action, predicting the future, and who will win the World Cup Football tournament (1966)
22. (14 June, 2010) Tocqueville on the form of despotism the government would assume in democratic America (1840)
23. (8 June, 2010) Milton argues that a Monarchy wants the people to be prosperous only so it can better fleece them (1660)
24. (1 June, 2010) Vicesimus Knox on how the aristocracy and the “spirit of despotism” use the commemoration of the war dead for their own aims (1795)
25. (25 May, 2010) William Grampp shows how closely connected Richard Cobden’s desire for free trade was to his desire for peace (1960)
26. (19 May, 2010) Cato denounces generals like Julius Caesar who use success on the battlefield as a stepping stone to political power (1710)
27. (12 May, 2010) Spooner states the importance of the 9th Amendment to the American Constitution which protects the natural rights of the people not enumerated in the 1st 8 Amendments (1886)
28. (9 May, 2010) Cicero on the need for politicians to place the interests of those they represent ahead of their own private interests (1st century BC)
29. (26 April, 2010) Lord Acton on the destruction of the liberal Girondin group and the suicide of Condorcet during the French Revolution (1910
30. (23 April, 2010) Yves Guyot on the violence and lawlessness inherent in socialism (1910)
31. (20 April, 2010) Yves Guyot accuses all those who seek Protection from foreign competition of being “Socialists” (1893)
32. (5 April, 2010) Gaius states that according to natural reason the first occupier of any previously unowned property becomes the just owner (2nd Century)
33. (31 March, 2010) Lysander Spooner on the idea that laws against “vice” (victimless crimes) are unjust (1875)
34. (23 March, 2010) Madame de Staël argues that Napoleon was able to create a tyrannical government by pandering to men’s interests, corrupting public opinion, and waging constant war (1817)
35. (15 March, 2010) Jefferson on how Congress misuses the inter-state commerce and general welfare clauses to promote the centralization of power (1825)
36. (7 March, 2010) Milton warns Parliament’s general Fairfax that justice must break free from violence if “endless war” is to be avoided (1648)
37. (1 March, 2010) Macaulay and Bunyan on the evils of swearing and playing hockey on Sunday (1830)
38. (22 February, 2010) Thierry on the need for songs about our lost liberties which will act as a barrier to encroaching power (1845)
39. (15 February, 2010) Wollaston on crimes against person or property as contradictions of fundamental truths (1722)
40. (11 February, 2010) On Achilles’ new shield Vulcan depicts the two different types of cities which humans can build on earth; one based on peace and the rule of law; the other based on war, killing, and pillage (900 BC)
41. (7 February, 2010) John Hobson argues that sport plays an important part in British imperialism for all classes and that the “spirit of adventure” is now played out in the colonies (1902)
42. (4 February, 2010) The Earl of Shaftesbury relates the story of an unscrupulous glazier who gives the rowdy town youths a football so they will smash windows in the street and thus drum up business (1737)
43. (3 February, 2010) Nisbet on how violent, contact sports like football redirect people’s energies away from war (1988)
44. (1 February, 2010) Frederick Pollock argues that a violent assault on the football field is not an actionable tort because it is part of the activities of a voluntarily agreed to association of adults (1895)
45. (25 January, 2010) Herbert Spencer worries that the violence and brutalities of football will make it that much harder to create a society in which individual rights will be mutually respected (1879)
46. (19 January, 2010) Voltaire laments the destruction of Lisbon in an earthquake and criticises the philosophers who thought that “all’s well with the world” and the religious who thought it was “God’s will” (1755)
47. (11 January, 2010) Richard Cobden outlines his strategy of encouraging more people to acquire land and thus the right to vote in order to defeat the “landed oligarchy” who ruled England and imposed the “iniquity” of the Corn Laws (1845)
48. (4 January, 2010) Livy on the irrecoverable loss of liberty under the Roman Empire (10 AD)