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amounts to five cents per annum for eacli inhabitant, the police 

 expenses to half a cent! 



Have we not here a possible solution-of the problem which 

 has vexed many a lover of his kind, viz., how to preserve intact 

 the sanctity of the individual home, while securing the fullest 

 advantages of social union? 



The Greeley colony in Colorado furnishes another proof of 

 the entire practicability of carrying out the colonial plan with 

 out requiring a religious or sectarian qualification for member 

 ship. 



1 The social and political problem is the incorporation of the 

 entire population into society; 7 it is the mission of the Patrons 

 to aid in this, by creating a true social spirit among the great 

 class of laborers to which they belong. Leaving Koman luxury 

 and Koman licentiousness to nations in their childhood or their 

 dotage, we believe there is a higher relation than that of land 

 lord and tenant, viz., the relation of founder and partner, and 

 that capital and culture, as well as labor, will only reach their 

 highest uses in helping men to live nobly, simply and peace 

 fully with each other. 



In the forming of new colonies the last will be first in re 

 spect to results, for it can avoid the mistakes and profit by the 

 experiences of the rest. A diversity of employments should 

 be aimed at in the community and for the individual; not for 

 regular business, perhaps, but to multiply resources in case of 

 need, and because this brings out and utilizes all the faculty of 

 the community. 



.The agricultural communities of the future, whether separately 

 organized or not, will undoubtedly be less sectarian in religion, 

 less partisan in politics, less contracted by traditions and habits 

 of nation or race. An honorable and emulous class interest will 

 be their distinguishing characteristic; they, with all the other 

 great classes of laboring men, will &quot;lay the* foundations of an 

 everlasting commonwealth, whose power shall be manhood; 

 whose organization, a model State; whose spirit, religion; 

 whose weapon, suffrage; whose conservatism, education; whose 

 objects are freedom of industry as well as of opinion, order, 

 economy and peace within the State, and an eternal brother 

 hood with those who are our wider neighbors.&quot; 



