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or even the merits of Skill and Industry,/) have 
spread' in England and America, by turns suc- 
cessful or desponding, they still cling to their 
infatuation, by adopting the principles of Social 
Harmony ; which are in fact the practical part 
of the first Apostolic Communities, and the Es- 
sen i a ns their progenitors. 
37, Community of property has always been 
deemed a more perfect rfiode of life, and when 
the Nazarens or Evangelists became gradually 
Sinful Xristians admitting Cupidity and other 
Vices, they yet venerated the Therapeuts or 
Monks and Nuns, that kept the practical tenet 
of common goods and labor. In order to restore 
the purity and further improve this very old 
Apostolic Dogma, it is only needful to add there- 
to the important improvement of adequate and 
proportionate reward of Wealth , Knowledge, 
Talents and Labor ! acting in concord. Thus 
the baneful Social (or Anti-Social) tenets of 
Owen and others, will be banished, by the pure 
light and practice of Evangelical Concord . 
38, This may be done by the Mutual plan, 
proposed in France by St. Simon, F ourier, Con- 
siderant and others ; which they have unfortu- 
nately promulgated chiefly in theory, and drown- 
ed in long intricate details, whereby it is often 
difficult to ascertain their meaning. Fourier 
was so Sanguine as to suppose that the whole 
world would adopt at once his Scheme of Social 
or Mutual Phalanx ; but he died before a sin- 
gle one could be fairly tried. He has left how- 
ever zealous disciples, some of whom have reach- 
ed America, and a Phalanx is said to be under 
trial near Paris : while the St. Simonians at- 
tempting a New Sect, abolishing family ties, 
have been persecuted and dispersed. 
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