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OHIO

OHIO

Archaeological and Historical

PUBLICATIONS.

 

 

 

THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR.

 

AN EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNISM -FROM ITS COMMENCEMENT

TO ITS CONCLUSION.

 

BY E. O. RANDALL, LL. M., SECRETARY OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL

AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

It is somewhat singular, if indeed not really significant,

that just at this time while the views of Edward Bellamy1 are

attracting world-wide attention and receiving an enthusiastic

acceptance almost startling in its extent, one of the most com-

plete and perhaps most thoroughly tried applications of the so-

 

1Edward Bellamy, born Chicopee Falls, Mass., March 26, 1850;

died same place, May 22, 1898. Author of "Looking Backward" (1889)

and "Equality" (1897). Editor "The New Nation," established January,

1891. These works advocate a socialistic communism. Bellamy's books

reached a sale of hundreds of thousands and some four hundred papers

and periodicals have been established devoted to his theories, while

thousands of clubs and societies have been formed throughout the coun-

try promotive of what is called the Nationalistic Movement, which in

certain sections has taken an organized political character, leading to

the formation of local, state and national parties. The Nationalistic

Movement does not at once demand the adoption of the perfected ideal

scheme as described in "Equality," but tends towards an Utopian com-

mune, to be preceded "by the nationalization of industries, including as

minor applications of the same principle, the municipalization and state

control of localized business."

Vol. VIII-1