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the tabernacles o^ Harmony. At any rate, Rapp secures 

 the effects of celibacy ; first, an absence of the expense 

 attending the breeding and rearing of children, and, 

 second, unremitted labour of woman as well as man. 

 But, where, in all the world, is the match of this to be 

 found ? Where else shall we look for a Society com- 

 posed of persons willing and able to forego the gra- 

 tification of the most powerful propensity of nature, 

 for the sake of getting money together ? Where else 

 shall we look for a band of men and women who love 

 money better than their own bodies 1 Better than their 

 souls we find people enough to love money ; but, who 

 ever before heard of a set that preferred the love of 

 money to that of their bodies ? Who, before, ever con- 

 ceived the idea of putting a stop to the procreation of 

 children, for the sake of saving tlie expense of bearing 

 and breeding them ? This Society, which is a perfect 

 prodigy and monster, ought to have the image of 

 MAMMON in their place of M-orship ; for that fs the 

 object of their devotion, and not the God of nature. 

 Yet the persons belonging to this unnatural association 

 are your iiparpst npitrhbours. THp maspidine things 

 here, called women, who have imposed barrenness on 

 themselves, out of a pure love of gain, are the nearest 

 neighbours of the affectionate, tender-hearted wives 

 and mothers and daughters, who are to inhabit your 

 colony, and who are, let us thank God, the Aery reverse 

 of the petticoated Germans of Harmony. 



584. In such a situation, with so many circumstances 

 to annoy, what happiness can an English family enjoy 

 in that country, so far distant from all that resembles 

 what they have left behind them f " The fair Enchant- 

 " ress, Liberti/," of whom you speak with not too much 

 rapture, they would have found in any of these States, 

 and, in a garb, too, by which they would have recognised 

 her. Where they now are, they are free indeed ; but 

 their freedom is that of the wild animals in your woods. 

 It is not freedom, it is no government. The Gipsies, 

 in England, are free ; and any one, who has a mind to 

 live in a cave, or cabin, in some hidden recess of our 

 Hampshire forests, may be free too. The English 

 farmer, in the Illinois, is, indeed, beyond the reach of 



