The Commonweal Archive

A curated digital repository of public domain texts focusing on Distributism, Georgism, and Non-Resistance. The project utilizes OCR and formatting remediation to make early 20th-century political economy texts accessible to modern researchers.


Theology and non-resistance

1927: The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton

1924: William Lloyd Garrison on Non-Resistance by Fanny Garrison Villard

1923: Atonement and Non-Resistance by William Wilson

1908: Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton

1896: On Non-Resistance: Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby by Leo Tolstoy

1896: Patriotism or Peace: Letter to Manson by Leo Tolstoy

1894: Christianity and Patriotism by Leo Tolstoy

1894: The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy

1888: Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

1887: What a Christian May Do, and What Not by Leo Tolstoy

1839: Non-Resistance in relation to Human Governments by Adin Ballou

Political economy and political science

1933: Flight from the City by Ralph Borsodi

1926: Outline of Sanity by G. K. Chesterton

1924: Economics for Helen by Hilaire Belloc

1923: Towards a Christian Sociology by Arthur J. Penty

1922: What I Saw in America by G. K. Chesterton

1922: Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. Chesterton

1922: The Control and Distribution of Production by C. H. Douglas

1921: Guilds, Trade, and Agriculture by Arthur Penty

1921: The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney

1920: The Superstition of Divorce by G. K. Chesterton

1920: Economic Democracy by C. H. Douglas

1919: Guilds and the Social Crisis by Arthur Penty

1919: Mutual Banking by William B. Greene

1918: The Free Press by Hilaire Belloc

1917: Utopia of Usurers by G. K. Chesterton

1912: The Servile State by Hilaire Belloc

1910: What's Wrong with the World by G. K. Chesterton

1906: The Restoration of the Guild System by Arthur Penty

1891: The Condition of Labor by Henry George

1883: Social Problems by Henry George

1797: Agrarian Justice by Thomas Paine

History and biography

1923: St. Francis of Assisi by G. K. Chesterton

1920: A Guildsman's Interpretation of History by Arthur Penty

1900: Count Tolstoy and His Philosophy of Life by Ernest Howard Crosby

Fiction and parable

1908: The Man who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton

1904: The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G. K. Chesterton

1887: Where love is there God is also by Leo Tolstoy