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Her family moved to the United States during her childhood, and she had no formal schooling, educating herself by reading. In 1910 she married Kenneth Birrell Paterson and began her career in journalism writing editorials for the Inland Herald. She separated from her husband in 1918 and moved to New York, working for the New York American and Hearst's Magazine, and became a U.S. citizen in 1928. Her novels include The Shadow Riders (1916), The Magpie's Nest (1917) and Never Ask the End (1933).\n\nIn 1922 she joined the New York Herald Tribune to review for its Sunday books section, and in 1924 began the column \"Turns With a Bookworm,\" which mixed reviews, literary anecdotes and her political views. She opposed the New Deal, and she was dismissed from the paper in 1949.\n\nHer political argument took full form in The God of the Machine, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1943. Paterson modeled economic life as a flow of energy, with productive individuals as dynamos and production and exchange as circuits. She set a society of contract, grounded in individual liberty and private property, against a society of status that denies rights and produces less. Government, in her scheme, belongs among the \"brakes and governors,\" acting only when something goes wrong. In the chapter \"The Humanitarian with the Guillotine\" she argued that a philanthropist who seeks power over producers comes to depend on continued need: if helping others is his primary objective, \"his ultimate good requires that others shall be in want.\" The book also read the U.S. Constitution as a structure for releasing individual energy, flawed by its compromise with slavery and by later amendments that concentrated power.\n\nPaterson influenced Ayn Rand's thinking on government and American history, and Rand praised The God of the Machine in the highest terms. The two had broken by 1948 over disagreements that included whether religion was compatible with capitalism; Paterson held that morality was essential to an economic order. She corresponded with Russell Kirk and wrote for National Review. The Mises Institute counts her, with Rose Wilder Lane and Rand, as \"one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism.\" She refused Social Security benefits, and died in Montclair, New Jersey, on January 10, 1961.",1886,1961,"Canadian-American","writer","20th Century","\u002Fimages\u002Ffigures\u002Fwebp\u002Fisabel-paterson.webp",null,[115],{"archetype_slug":59,"strength":116,"description":117},8,"Your suspicion of compassion administered by force has a chapter title: The Humanitarian with the Guillotine. Paterson argued that free exchange carries a society's energy and that government should act only as a brake when something fails, while holding that morality is essential to a free economy.",[],[],[],[],[],[],{"cards":125,"influenced":126,"shapedBy":127,"outbound":128},[],[],[],0]