Beginning with a volume containing Spooner's three essays about deism (which he published in 1834 and 1836), which will be released in early 2011, Cobden Publishing will be producing a set of books containing thematically-organized reprints of Spooner's work.
As I explain in the introductory essay that I have written for the deism volume, now available on SSRN, these deism essays were certainly not Spooner's best work, and lacked the rigorous logical reasoning that defines almost all of his later writings. Nevertheless, it is exciting that they will be included in the first volume produced by Cobden. Unlike many of Spooner's other works, these essays have not been reprinted (other than in the Collected Works of Lysander Spooner), and scholars have paid them, the first published writings by Spooner, very little attention.
For anyone interested in Spooner, this, and the subsequent volumes that Cobden plans to produce, will be required, and instructive reading.
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