History of American Socialisms (Notable American Authors) [Library Binding]

John Humphrey Noyes (Author)

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Publication Date: 1870 | ISBN-10: 0781246490 | ISBN-13: 978-0781246491

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 59 CHAPTER VI. YELLOW SPRINGS COMMUNITY. The fame of New Harmony has of course overshadowed and obscured all other experiments that resulted from Owen's labors in this country. It is perhaps scarcely known at this day that a Community almost as brilliant as Brook Farm, was started by his personal efforts at Cincinnati, even before he commenced operations at New Harmony. The following sketch, clipped by Mac- donald from some old newspaper (the name and date of which are missing), is not only pleasant reading, but bears internal marks of painstaking and truthfulness. It is a model memoir of the life and death of a non- religious Community ; and would serve for many others, by changing a few names, as ministers do when they re- preach old funeral sermons. The moral at the close, inferring the impracticability of Communism, may prob- bly be accepted as sound, if restricted to non-religious experiments. The general career of Owen is sketched correctly and in rather a masterly manner: and the interesting fact is brought to light, that the beginning of the Owen movement in this country was signalized by a conjunction with Swedenborgianism. The significance of this fact will appear more fully, when we come to the history of the marriage between Fourierism andSwedenborgianism, which afterwards took place at Brook Farm. MEMOIR. " The narrative here presented," says the unknown writer, " was prepared at the request of a minister who had looked in vain for any account of the Communities established by Robert Owen in this country. It is simply what it pretends to be, reminiscences by one who, while a youth, resided with his parents as a member of the Community at Yellow Springs. For some years together since his manhood, he has been associated with several of the leading men of ...

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• Library Binding: 400 pages
• Publisher: Reprint Services Corp (1870)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781246490
• ISBN-13: 978-0781246491
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