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Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE


INTRODUCTION

11

SUBJECTS OF THE INQUIRY

11

THE CONDITION AND NECESSITIES OF LABOR

15

MISTAKE OF THE TRADES-UNIONS

17

REASONS FOR IT

18

LABOR SOCIETIES, AS AT PRESENT MANAGED, MISCHIEVOUS

21


THE AMANA SOCIETY

25

ITS HISTORY AND ORIGIN

26

AMANA IN 1874

31

SOCIAL HABITS AND CUSTOMS

32

RELIGION AND LITERATURE

43


THE HARMONISTS AT ECONOMY

63

ECONOMY IN 1874

65

HISTORY OF THE HARMONY SOCIETY

69

ITS RELIGIOUS CREED

85

PRACTICAL LIFE

81

SOME PARTICULARS OF "FATHER RAPP"

91


THE SEPARATISTS OF ZOAR

99

ORIGIN AND HISTORY

99

THEIR RELIGIOUS FAITH

103

PRACTICAL LIFE AND PRESENT CONDITION

110


THE SHAKERS

117

"MOTHER ANN"

118

THE ORDER OF LIFE AMONG THE SHAKERS

135

A VISIT TO MOUNT LEBANON

151

DETAILS OF ALL THE SHAKER SOCIETIES

179

SHAKER LITERATURE

214

"SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS"

232

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THE ONEIDA AND WALLINGFORD PERFECTIONISTS

259

ORIGIN AND HISTORY

259

THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEF

268

DAILY LIFE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

277

SUNDAY AT ONEIDA

287

"CRITICISM" AND "PRAYER-CURES"

293


THE AURORA AND BETHEL COMMUNES

305

AURORA IN OREGON

305

BETHEL IN MISSOURI

324

THEIR HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS FAITH

329


THE ICARIANS

333


THE BISHOP HILL COLONY

343

ITS ORIGIN AND HISTORY

344

CAUSES OF ITS FAILURE

349


THE CEDAR VALE COMMUNE

353


THE SOCIAL FREEDOM COMMUNITY

357


THREE COLONIES—NOT COMMUNISTIC

361

ANAHEIM, IN CALIFORNIA

361

VINELAND, IN NEW JERSEY

366

SILKVILLE PRAIRIE HOME, IN KANSAS

375


COMPARATIVE VIEW AND REVIEW

385

STATISTICAL

385

COMMUNAL POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY

392

CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE

399

INFLUENCES OF COMMUNISTIC LIFE

406

CONDITIONS AND POSSIBILITIES OF COMMUNISTIC LIVING

409


BIBLIOGRAPHY

421


INDEX

435

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