The Eagle and the Serpent (1898 – 1927) was edited by John Erwin McCall (John Basil Barnhill) and occasionally co-edited by Malfew Seklew. To get the most out of reading this journal, it is highly recommended you pick up a copy of Trevor Blake‘s The Eagle and the Serpent Index of Names, part of the Stand Alone (2016) journal, available exclusively from Underworld Amusements. He used a keycode of A-T in his index, to refer to each issue, instead of the Vol/No, and we’ve put the corresponding letters in parenthesis in the listing below for your ease of use.
Prospectus
OUR CREED AND AIM.
A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves.
A race of freemen is necessarily a race of egoists.
Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.
To convert the exploiters to altruism is a fatuous programme–a maniac’s dream. The only remedy for social injustice is this: the exploited must save themselves by enlightened self-interest. The exploiters are certainly egoistic enough; the only hope for the exploited is for them to become equally so–yes, consistently, persistently egoistic. Egoism spells justice and freedom as surely as altruism spells charity and slavery.
Three thousand years of sorrowful experience make the foregoing propositions too evident to us. The object of THE EAGLE AND THE SERPENT is to make them equally evident to all mankind. We stand for the art of life and the life of art–we stand for that freedom which is the life of art and can alone teach us the art of living. When we have converted a body of believers to these views, then our mission will have–begun.
O EXPLOITED PEOPLES! EXCEPT YE ARE CONVERTED AND BECOME AS PROUD AS THE EAGLE AND AS WISE AS THE SERPENT, YE SHALL IN NO WISE ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF JUSTICE.
Masthead
Subtitles: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology, A Journal of Emersonian Philosophy and Sociology, A Journal of Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness, A Journal of Free Spirits and for Spirits struggling to be Free
Editors: John Erwin McCall, and occasionally co-edited by Malfew Seklew
Contributors:
Subjects:
Index of Issues
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 1 (A)| February 15, 1898 | (to be posted)
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: (not credited)
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 2 (B)| April 15th, 1898 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: (not credited)
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 3 (C)| June 15th, 1898 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 4 (D)| September 1, 1898 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 5 (E)| November 1, 1898 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 6 (F)| December 1, 1898 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 7 (G)| February 12, 1899 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 8 (H)| (to be posted)
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 9 (I)| October 15th, 1899 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Egoistic Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 10 (J)| June, 1900 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Emersonian Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: (not credited)
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 11 (K)| July, 1900 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Emersonian Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: (not credited)
The Eagle and the Serpent | No 12. (L)| August, 1900 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Emersonian Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: (not credited)
The Eagle and the Serpent | Vol. 2, No. 1 (M)| September, 1900 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Emersonian Philosophy and Sociology
Edited by: (not credited)
The Eagle and the Serpent | Vol. 2, No. 2 (N)| October, 1900 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness
Edited by: (not credited)
The Eagle and the Serpent | Vol. 2, No. 3 (O)| Jan.-Feb.March, 1901 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Free Spirits and for Spirits struggling to be Free
Edited by : John Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | Vol. 2, No. 4 (P)| July, 1901 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Free Spirits and for Spirits struggling to be Free
Edited by : John Erwin McCall
The Eagle and the Serpent | Vol. 2, No. 5 (Q)| September, 1902 – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Free Spirits and for Spirits struggling to be Free
Edited by : John Erwin McCall, Malfew Seklew
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 18 (R)| (circa 1902) – PDF
Subtitle: A Journal of Free Spirits and for Spirits struggling to be Free
Edited by : John Erwin McCall, Malfew Seklew
The Eagle and the Serpent | No. 19 (S)| (circa 1902) – (to be posted)
Subtitle: A Journal of Free Spirits and for Spirits struggling to be Free
Edited by : John Erwin McCall