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."
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