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Society, and very good indeed, we then went out to see the people 

 at their harvest, which was just begun. There were 150 men and 

 women all reaping in the same field of wheat. A beautiful sight ! 

 The crop was very fine, and the field, extending to about two 

 miles in length, and from half a mile to a mile in width, was all 

 open to one view, the sun shining on it from the West, and the 

 reapers advancing regularly over it, 



915. At sun-set all the people came in, from the fields, work 

 shops, mills, manufactories, and from all their labours. This 

 being their evening for prayer during the week, the Church bell 

 called them out again, in about 15 minutes, to attend a lecture 

 from their High Priest and Law-giver, Mr. George Rapp. We 

 went to hear the lecture, or, rather, to see the performance, for, 

 it being all performed in German, we could understand not a 

 word. The people were all collected in a twinkling, the men at 

 one end of the Church and the women at the other ; it looked 

 something like a Quaker Meeting, except that there was not a 

 single little child in the place. Here they were kept by their 

 Pastor a couple of hours, after which they returned home to bed. 

 This is the quantum of Church-service they perform during the 

 week ; but on Sundays they are in Church nearly the whole of 

 the time from getting up to going to bed. When it happens that 

 Mr. Rapp cannot attend, either by indisposition or other accident, 

 the Society still meet as usual, and the elders (certain of the most 

 trusty and discreet, whom the Pastor selects as a sort of assistants 

 in his divine commission) converse on religious subjects. 



916. Return to the Tavern to sleep ; a good comfortable house, 

 well kept by decent people, and the master himself, who is very 

 intelligent and obliging, is one of the very few at Harmony who 

 can speak English. Our beds were as good as those stretched 

 upon by the most highly pensioned and placed Boroughmongers, 

 and our sleep, I hope, much better than the tyrants ever get, in 

 spite of ail their dungeons and gags. 



917. July 2nd. Early in the morning, took a look at the manu 

 facturing establishment, accompanied by our Tavern-keeper. 

 I find great attention is paid to this branch of their affairs. Their 

 principle is, not to be content with the profit upon the manual 

 labour of raising the article, but also to have the benefit of the 

 machine in preparing it for use. I agree with them perfectly, 

 and only wish the subject was as well understood all over the 

 United States as it is at Harmony. It is to their skill in this way 

 that they owe their great prosperity ; if they had been nothing but 

 farmers, they would be now at Harmony in Pennsylvania, poor 

 cultivators, getting a bare subsistence, instead of having doubled 

 their property two or three times over, by which they have been 

 able to move here and select one of the choicest spots in the 

 country. 



918. But, in noting down the state of this Society, as it now is, 

 its origin should not be forgotten ; the curious history of it serves 



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