Charles Cist as linguist translator from Europe to America

Charles Cist had a very good education from Halle University in Germany during the mid 1700's. He spoke Russian, German, and English, possibly French. When he made his escape through Europe and sailed to America he knowingly or unknowingly brought with him his own individual ideas and cultural influences that needed to be translated towards the ideals of a transformation from the British Colonies to The United States of America. He was just one individual. Multiply this by the many more influences of people coming to the New World at this time just before the American Revolutionary War. Think about Macro/ Micro economics and those two levels within a single concept. How do you translate culture from Old World to New World into a common language, English?

Charles Cist was in the cultural center of Philadelphia when town hall meetings were taking place. Town hall meetings were taking place in the thirteen colonies, too. It took time for the farmers and the educated clergy, statesmen, and others to translate literal words and phrases to understand shared ideas, listen to ideas and to understand ideas. After these meetings a unified presentation was presented to the Continental Congress for these ideas to be ratified. There were still verbal upheavals at these ratifying meetings, too.

The Use and Misuse of Language, edited by S. I. Hayakawa illustrates how different cultures from Old Europe were brought over to the New World. Mr. Hayakawa states that he is only qualified to discuss European influences. I will illustrate a section from pages 52-55.

Mr. Hayakawa gives credit on page 52 to Professor Karl Pribram who has pointed out the importance of language concepts in Pribram's book, Conflicting Patterns of Thought. Professor Pribram gives four patterns of reasoning, (1) Universalistic reasoning (2) Nominalistic, or hypothetical reasoning (3) Intuitional ,or organismic reasoning (4) Dialectic reasoning.

Universalistic reasoning is about the premise that the human mind can grasp the order of the universe. Reason is credited with the power to know the truth  with aid of given general concepts and to establish absolutes in human relationships.

Nominalistic reasoning is illustrated on page 53 about how French tourists view the New York subway system. The New York subway system is designed to be efficient for moving large populations of workers in and out the the city to different suburbs when their work shift is over. The Paris Metro system is designed to move populations to and from different monuments within the city limits. These are two totally different uses of transportation systems and it can affect how a French tourist views his/ her visit as pleasant or frustrating when using the New York subway.

Intuitional, or organismic reasoning stresses intuition rather than systematic cogitation. Professor Pribram goes on to explain about biological organisms and its component cells move around by intuition.

Dialectic reasoning. I am being honest. I am going to have to re-read this part of the book to fully understand it first myself before I can write about it so it is clear to me and to readers. More to follow.

Can you put yourself in Cist's shoes when attempting to translate these four different thought patterns and then translate words and phrases so everyone understands and agrees. Cist was not the sole person doing the work, but because of his multiply language skills he was in demand in Philadelphia meetings during this process.

I can imagine Cist first, listening to foreign accents, agree or disagree without praise or censorship, until we understand what those views are stating, then reviewing what was said and reviewing what was said in multiply languages. I have not even touched on the implications of the non- verbal and what was not said connotations of such meetings in the 1770's. The  process took time.

I am observing society today with the current immigration conflicts, and world events.
Andrew C . Allen
1841 West Main Street, #212
Troy, OH  45373
513.638.7140

Cist- Imprisonment, Shrimp, Slavery, Thailand

This blog entry is an attempt to make awareness of slavery, imprisonment, freedom, liberty, and costs associated with it.

Charles Cist lived in the 1700's. He was imprisonment and likely experienced slave labor while in Siberia, Russia.  The idea of imprisonment slavery is not new. It happened in Biblical Egypt, it happened in the 1700's with Cist. The Underground Railroad during the American slavery movement  is well documented. Slavery is happening in modern day society. The term Underground Railroad is a term used to express freedom and liberty and cost and hope and faith and love. Do organizations experience upgrading, transformation, and new management changes? Yes, it happens all the time, but the organization still remains. So when someone implies that the Underground Railroad is still alive it should not surprise you. Imprisonment and slavery can be about physical slavery, spiritual slavery, financial slavery, sex slavery, drug addiction, mental health imprisonment. My own personal imprisonment issues has been about battling depression. I was unbalance years ago. With visits with a doctor and therapist, and a case manager, I am now an asset to my family and not a liability. I have a more meaningful and inspired life. It has taken me a lifetime of learning more about the Holy Bible and that adds understanding on how to deal with my depression and being balanced, release freedom and liberty. In order to understand more about this, it is recommended to participate in a Bible study group. Explore your own individual imprisonment, slavery experience and hopefully gain more out of these blog entries.

The Guardian, www.theguardian.com, wrote articles about modern day slavery concerning the supply chain with global pawn (shrimp) industry in Thailand and its connections to US and European stores, such as, Walmart, Costco, Carrefour, and Tesco to name a few. In the article Charoen Pokphand Foods, (CP Foods), was named in a class action lawsuit filed by co-lead Derek Howard, Howard Law Firm, in Mill Valley, California. In the lawsuit it gives testimonies of workers who were forced to work 20 hour shifts, starting at 3:00 am., workers were killed in front of other workers to show fear and intimidation, some workers were at sea for years. The Thai Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Vijavat Isarabhakdi, says that his department has made progress in this area.

How does this effect me? How does this effect you? As an American living in the US, it is a blessing that our society has many comforts of modern day living. It makes me more aware of eliminating an attitude of ( I can eat shrimp whenever I want, I can have as much shrimp whenever I want, I  expect shrimp to be cheap). Yes, I will eat shrimp again in the future. Am I more balanced about portion sizes and who is involved with the supply chain,yes. I make an attempt to read food labels. Where does this food come from? Be honest with yourself ;therefore, you can be honest with others. I do not need to tell society that there is spiritual warfare going on. It is all around us. It happens in Bible, it happens during Cist's period, it is happening today. If you fully understand that a person's behavior can have a negative/ positive effect elsewhere in the universe  (both physically/ spiritually) and then multiply that by all of your decisions during the day, how you eat, what you eat, how you spend money, who you give money to, how you  use your time ,who you spend time with, who do you look up to . Include all the other decisions that I have left out and it will probably make your head spin. It is OK to seek therapy.

In conclusion, I am using the life of Charles Cist, an American Revolutionary War printer, as an example and testimony on how a person can survive imprisonment, slavery and reinvent themselves and live a productive life. I look at the life of Charles Cist and his involvement to the causes of freedom and liberty as permission to so. 

Andrew C. Allen

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Making Connections Thomas Paine and Charles Cist.

I know that Thomas Paine and Charles Cist worked together in Philadelphia through the printing of Common Sense. I am reading Thomas Paine and the Promise of America, by Harvey J. Kaye. Mr. Kaye's novel describes Paine's early adulthood while living in London, England and the Sussex coast. On pages 26-40 Kaye illustrates the chronicle  movements of Paine arriving to America and how he arrived and when he arrived. Paine petitioned the Excise Commission in London for career opportunities and there he networked with the City's intellectuals and met the writer and scientist and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin. This is a connection because it shows the same time period that Cist made he escape through Europe to America. It also shows the networking by Benjamin Franklin and others traveling back and forth from America to England and France and elsewhere meeting, well- educated, young individuals to come to America.

Additionally, Paine was not the publisher of North Briton, but he did witness the publisher, John Wilkes, go through a public display of "Wilkes and Liberty" in the streets against the control of government and taxes. It illustrated an example of government menacing in rights of freeborn Englishmen. He took this experience with him to the British Colonies when he left England in the late summer of 1774.
Benjamin Franklin gave Paine an introduction letter to show Franklin's son-in-law, Richard Bache, an insurance underwriter in Philadelphia and to Franklin's son, William. William was Royal Governor of New Jersey. The introduction letter read:
The bearer, Mr. Thomas Paine, is very well recommended to me as an ingenious worthy young man...If you can put him in a way of obtaining employment as a clerk, or assistant tutor in a school, or assistant surveyor ( of all of which I think him very capable) so that he may procure a subsistence at least, til he can make acquaintance and obtain a knowledge of the country you will do well and much oblige your affectionate father.
Paine had networking opportunities and platforms to springboard his political ambitions.

Could this have happened to Charles Cist? Did Cist receive a letter of introduction from someone in America while in Europe? Was it Benjamin Franklin? Cist landed in Philadelphia during the same time period.  He married Mary Weiss the daughter of Jacob Weiss who was under the command of George Washington. This shows a similar networking of the same social connections.

On page 29, Mr. Kaye mentions that the British Colonies had swelled to over three million people. The wave of immigrants from Scots, Scots-Irish, Welsh, Germans, Dutch, French, Swedes, and enslaved Africans made America even more diverse. The" news" was out all over Europe "Come to America."

Charles Cist spoke many languages and with all of these new immigrants arriving in the British Colonies, he, too, was involved in a network to come to America. Cist could not have done all this traveling from Siberia, Russia to America on his own.
Andrew C. Allen


Paine arrived in Philadelphia a free man, but the ship travel was very difficult, many people died on the journey over. Paine quickly was offered a journalism/ editorship job at The Pennsylvania Magazine  owned by Robert Aitken. Under Paine's editorship subscriptions rose from 600 to 1500 subscribers, but Paine was not happy working for Mr. Aitken and Mr. Witherspoon. He quit in summer of 1775.

Is there a connection between the break up of the printing partnership of Cist and Styner  and Paine leaving the editorship of The Pennsylvania Magazine? Cist continued to print pamphlets. This has been added to the list of questions I have at home.
Andrew C. Allen
1841 West Main Street, #212
Troy, OH  45373
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12/10/2015

Charles Cist, Thomas Paine, Myself

Charles Cist received ridicule towards his later years in life in Philadelphia in the late 1790's and early 1800's when he tried to market his coal stones. People thought that the coal rocks where difficult to burn, so they thought that he was trying to scam the community into buying a worthless product.
Cist was a life long learner in natural sciences. He graduated form the University of Halle, Germany, he was a physician in the royal court of Catherine the Great in Imperial Russia, he learned how to print American Revolutionary War pamphlets, and he was a treasurer of the Continental Congress, he married Mary Weiss and fathered children. He was very active in life.
Society can be very fickle and undeserving. He made improvements in society.

Thomas Paine was similar to Cist in not being recognized for his contributions until after he died. His Common Sense and American Crisis were his two most notable works.

I spent part of the summer in a men's homeless shelter. I experienced a helpful network of people and resources that helped me get to the next level in my life. I would not have moved forward as quickly as I did if I just stayed at a hotel every night just watching T.V.

I can imagine Charles Cist networking through Siberia and Europe to get to America during the 1770's. He did this with the help of a network of people and resources.
I need to take a break now. I will return later.

Romantic courtship of 1700's Cist vs. Modern Day Romance Cist

I have wondered how Charles Cist met his wife, Mary Weiss. After his escape from Siberia, how did he meet her in Philadelphia, PA, at church, party? I know that he was a European aristocrat. Mary Weiss was the daughter of Jacob Weiss, who was under General George Washington's army. That is a connection.
 In early Colonial Times in American, according to Molly Wolf, a library liaison to the school of Human Sexuality at Widener University, women were married off for business reasons and for survival ship. If a woman survived the previous winter and was of child-bearing age she was a prime catch in those days. The father  usually tried to incorporate water rights and property rights for farming during a marriage.
Large cities such as Philadelphia were changing family's dynamics about marriages and courtships. Sailors were arriving on ships looking for a quite love connections and they would hold hands and then skip town on the next boat to England. If the girl got pregnant then the sailor might have to come back as face charges, but that was not the norm. Philadelphia, PA was a cultural, social, and scientific place and classes were forming away from the traditional farming culture.

Charles Cist had a strong life about the ideals of liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness and educational pursuit. I know that he had challenges during his courtship days. Did he leave a wife and family back in Europe before he escaped from Siberia? Is their a family in Russia or Germany who had told stories of an ancestor who was imprisoned by the Imperial Court of Catherine the Great to Siberia and died, not knowing that Charles Cist  survived his imprisonment only to escape to America. His  American direct linage has passed down stories of his American endeavors, government printing, world renowned autograph collection, Civil War offspring involvement. If so, I am in favor of meeting long lost cousins in Europe.

For know I am sharing my own Cist linage pursuit of modern day courtship. I am still seeking freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from my own family's interest of leaving me out of decisions. I have been making it on my own this summer by living out of my car and men's shelters for financial reasons, positive mental health, and to get away form family's manipulations. I can get a first date with a lovely girl. It is over coffee that I have to usually explain that I am living at a men's shelter and I have an 8 o'clock curfew. For a fifty year old male this puts a damper on getting a second date. I am still searching for a very understanding, beautiful, smart woman. I have tried the internet dating avenue, but I have come across fake profiles who just want to scam a person out of money.

I do share a positive outlook on life with Charles Cist. He must of had a positive outlook on life to have accomplished much and to have survived. Life is good.

Andrew C. Allen
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Interdisciplinary Study Case

It is important to try and place yourself in history. I am trying to put myself in Philadelphia, PA during the times of the American Revolutionary War. I was in London, Ontario last year and I noticed the Canadian Medical Museum in the heart of downtown London, ON. Could there be a connection between the thirteen colonies' medical experiments and experiences that were shared with Canadian society? I think so. Charles Cist was a physician and was educated to correspond and share knowledge.

I am in the process of moving to a more permanent living arrangement. I should be moving from the temporary men's shelter soon. This has caused a delay in my research, but I shall not quit!

Andrew C. Allen
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A Chickamauga Campaign Conflicting Story

Gen Benjamin Hardin Helm

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Birth:  Jun. 2, 1831 Hardin County Kentucky, USA Death:  Sep. 20, 1863 Chickamauga Walker County Georgia, USA Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born in Bardstown, Kentucky, he was called Ben Hardin Helm and graduated 9th in the West Point class of 1851. He resigned his Lieutenant's commission in 1852 after duty at the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, cavalry school and at Fort Lincoln, Texas, and became a law student, a 1 term Kentucky state legislator, a state attorney for Kentucky's 3rd District, and a prosperous lawyer. At the start of the Civil War he recruited the 1st Kentucky Cavalry for the Confederacy, then received a commission as a Colonel on October 19, 1861. He occupied Bowling Green, Kentucky, with Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner, and was later sent south. He received his promotion to Brigadier General on March 14, 1862. On April 6, at the end of the first day of fighting in the Battle of Shiloh, he incorrectly sent word from his post in north Alabama that Union Major General Don Carlos Buell's force was pressing for Decatur, Alabama, instead of moving to Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant's aid. General P.G.T. Beauregard, who assumed command after General Albert Sidney Johnston's death at Shiloh, later claimed that he disregarded his message, yet he did not press his advantage on the 6th. By morning, the reinforcements had arrived, strengthening the Federal position and denying victory to the Confederate troops. Shiloh did not affect his career. Posted to Vicksburg in summer 1862, he took part in Major General John C. Breckinridge's expedition to Baton Rouge but missed the battle because of injuries in a fall from his horse. In January 1863 he joined the Army of Tennessee and served in the Tullahoma and Chickamauga Campaigns under Breckinridge. On September 20, he was mortally wounded at Chickamauga and died that night with his final word being "Victory!". He is remembered less for his Confederate service than for marrying Emily Todd in 1856. Before the war, she, Mary Todd Lincoln's half sister, brought her husband into President Abraham Lincoln's family circle. Lincoln offered him a Union commission with the rank of Major in 1861, which he declined to raise the 1st Kentucky. After his death, his widow passed through Union lines to visit her sister at the White House in December. She later recalled that Lincoln himself met her at her carriage with tears in his eyes. Her stay would later cause a furor in the Northern press. (bio by: Ugaalltheway) Family links:  Parents:   John Larue Helm (1802 - 1867)   Lucinda Barbour Hardin Helm (1809 - 1885)  Spouse:   Emilie Todd Helm (1836 - 1930)*  Children:   Katherine Helm (1857 - 1937)*   Elodie Todd Lewis (1859 - 1953)*  Siblings:   Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831 - 1863)   George H. Helm (1833 - 1859)*   *Calculated relationship   Benjamin H. Helm died as a Confederate soldier at Chickamauga and he was in Abraham Lincoln's  family circle. Henry M. Cist was the secretary of the Army of the Cumberland and recorded many Civil War stories like this. He learned this from his father, Charles E. Cist. Andrew C. Allen 513.638.7140 pewabic34@gmail.com