The quality of the orchard and
farm and dairy products was invariably the best; and everything was
fresh as possible, and neat and attractive in appearance. I will venture
to say we got more money from an acre of ground in five days than any of
our neighbors did in six. Perhaps that was another reason why they did
not like us.
CHAPTER IX
FOURIER AND THE FARMERS
In the language of the time the Farmers were Socialists, but the
Socialism of 1840-50 was a very different proposition from the Socialism
of to-day. The earlier socialists were not in politics. They had no
party, politically speaking, and took only a remote and indirect
interest in political affairs. What they wanted was to reform the world;
to reconstruct civilization on a scientific basis. That was what
President Lincoln was wont to call a big job. However, faith will move
mountains, and the socialists certainly had faith. Their purpose was far
reaching, to be sure, but, after all, it rested on a very simple basis.
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