J. William Lloyd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

J. William Lloyd

American anarchist, sexologist, utopian theorist and author (1857-1940)

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1857

Place of Birth: New Jersey, United States

Date of Death: 23-Oct-1940

Profession: writer, physician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About J. William Lloyd

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  • William Lloyd (never using his given name John) (June 4, 1857 – October 23, 1940) was an American individualist anarchist from 1884 to around 1904.
  • He was born in Westfield, New Jersey; he later moved to Kansas, then Iowa, then to experimental colonies in Tennessee and Florida, before returning to New Jersey in 1888.
  • He based his anarchism upon natural law, rather than on egoism as Benjamin Tucker did.
  • His first book, "Wind-Harp Songs" (poetry), was published in 1895 ("Anarchists' March," a printed musical score with words by Lloyd, had been issued by Tucker in 1888).
  • He founded an anarchist group, The Comradeship of Free Socialists, in 1897.
  • His work, "The Red Heart in a White World: A Suggestive Manual of Free Society; Containing a Method and a Hope," formed the basis for it.
  • Lloyd later modified his position to minarchism. His life changed when in that year, reading Edward Carpenter while riding on a train to N.Y., he experienced "Cosmic Consciousness" (R.M.
  • Bucke devoted a chapter to Lloyd in his 1901 book of that title).
  • This inspired his book, "Dawn-Thought on the Reconciliation: a Volume of Pantheistic Impressions and Glimpses of Larger Religion" (1900).
  • He founded his magazine, "The Free Comrade," which first ran from 1900 to 1902.
  • There he championed anarchism, free love, Whitman ("Our American Shakespeare, and greater than he") and Edward Carpenter ("The greatest man of modern England").
  • In 1902 and 1904 were published his two utopian novels, "The Natural Man: A Romance of the Golden Age" and "The Dwellers in Vale Sunrise: How They Got Together and Lived Happy Ever After.
  • A Sequel to 'The Natural Man,' Being an Account of the Tribes of Him." The Free Comrade resumed publication in a new series, which ran from 1910 to 1912.
  • Lloyd now co-edited it with his friend Leonard D.
  • Abbott, who financed its publication.
  • Between the end of the original series and the beginning of the new, Lloyd had stopped considering himself a pure anarchist, indeed joining the Socialist Party ("I am still anarchistic in the essential sense....
  • the great need of Socialism is a stronger infusion of Anarchism....").
  • Meanwhile his friend Abbott had moved from socialism towards anarchism.
  • They saw the new series "as an advocate of the juncture of the Anarchist and Socialist forces." Lloyd's writings appeared in Benjamin Tucker's "Liberty"; in Moses Harman's anarchist and free love journal, "Lucifer the Light Bearer"; the anarchist and sex-radical newspaper "Fair Play"; the anarchist paper "Free Society," Horace Traubel's "Conservator"; etc.
  • He had a column in "Ariel," published by the Christian Socialist George Littlefield. He wrote hundreds of poems, many of which appeared in anarchist periodicals. He wrote many books.
  • Besides those listed above, they include "Aw-Aw Tam Indian Nights: Being the Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona" (1911); "Karezza Method," a sex manual (first published clandestinely ca.
  • 1918); "Eneres," published by Allen & Unwin in 1929 and Houghton Mifflin in 1930, with an introduction by Havelock Ellis; and at least 14 other works, mostly poetry. In "Edward Carpenter: In Appreciation," edited by Gilbert Beith (Allen & Unwin, 1931), Will S.
  • Monroe wrote, "Carpenter's most devoted American disciple is J.
  • William Lloyd, who did more than any other follower in the United States (Ernest Crosby excepted) to familiarize our countrymen with his doctrines." He contrasted his idea of free love to that of "the artistic free-lovers, the Bohemians": "My view of sex is religious, I might almost say, touched with austerity.
  • Sex and love to me are sacred and woman their priestess.
  • Sex should not be cultivated as a sybaritic indulgence, but with reference always to spiritual uplift, mental inspiration, physical health, individual fulfillment and racial progress-- always with reference to higher uses." (Free Comrade, July 1910).
  • Lloyd supported the Allies in World War I.
  • He moved to California in 1922.
  • In the 1930's he promoted the ideas of Edward Bellamy.
  • But throughout his life he maintained friendly relations with former associates.
  • He died in 1940. Though at times called a "drugless physician," Lloyd never graduated from the water-cure medical college he attended as a young man. Archival material by Lloyd can be found in the Labadie collection at the University of Michigan and at the von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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