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Prynce Hopkins (March 5, 1885 - August 1970), who was born Prince Charles Hopkins, was an American Socialist, pacifist and author of numerous psychology books and periodicals. He was jailed and fined for his strident anti-war views, pro-union activities, and investigated for his associations with such social reformers as Upton Sinclair and Emma Goldman. ==Background== Prynce Hopkins, christened Prince Charles Hopkins, spelled his name Pryns from about 1921 to 1948, and thereafter Prynce. He was a wealthy Californian described by the several newspapers as a "socialist millionaire." He had inherited a good deal of stock in the Singer Sewing Machine company, which his father, Charles Harris Hopkins, obtained from his second wife, Ruth Merrit Singer, after she died in childbirth. (Prynce was the only child of Charles' third wife, Mary Isabel Booth.) Prynce used his money to fund leftist causes, which he labeled the "uplift movement," and self-publish books on psychoanalysis, social reform and religion.〔''Both Hands Before the Fire'', a self-published autobiography by Prynce Charles Hopkins, 1965〕 Hopkins obtained his BA from Yale, a Master's degree in education from Columbia University, and a Ph.d from London University in psychology. He lived in England and France, where he owned and ran a school for boys based on Montessori-like methods, from 1921 to England's entrance in WWII in 1939. During the 1940s, while living in Pasadena, California, and publishing a socialist journal titled ''Freedom'', he lectured on comparative religion at Pomona College.〔Both Hands Before the Fire, self-published autobiography by Prynce Charles Hopkins, 1965〕 Hopkins was known for his unorthodox approach to social reform. His interests in mixing psychology, social reform and theology resulted in several books, including ''Father or Sons?'' (1927), ''The Psychology of Social Movements; a Psycho-Analytic View of Society'' (1938) and ''From Gods to Dictators: Psychology of Religions and their Totalitarian Substitutes'' (1944).〔(The Archives of the History of American Psychology )〕 Hopkins was born March 5, 1885 in Oakland, California. In 1898, his parents completed a house in Santa Barbara, California, and moved there from Oakland. In 1912, Hopkins opened a progressive boys' boarding school called Boyland in the hills above Santa Barbara. The school, however, was short-lived. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Hopkins became a vocal anti-war protester. He worked with anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman for the anti-war organization League for Amnesty of Political Prisoners. When Goldman was imprisoned for her anti-war activities, Hopkins became chairman of the League.〔("Amnesty of Political Prisoners" Anarchist website )〕 Prynce opened and operated a second progressive school for boys outside Paris, France, in about 1925, which closed upon the occupation of France by the Germans. 〔Both Hands Before the Fire〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Prynce Hopkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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