Ideas are seeds that originate in someone's imagination. Once shared, they are either ignored or pollenated by others. They take root and grow into beliefs, practices, and cultures. Good ideas produce good fruit. This book is a brief introduction to a man who has some great ideas that could lead to more humane societies. They deserve to be better understood and applied.This is the story of an extraordinary individual who always followed his own idiosyncratic passions. He interacted with, and influenced, some of the leading libertarian thinkers of his day. And he was the co-creator of possibly the only viable approach to a stateless world that could actually work.