Besides the exposition of socialistic
doctrine there were book reviews, musical notes, and fiction, the most
important novel being George Sands' "Consuelo," translated for the paper
by Francis George Shaw. _The Harbinger_ never paid expenses, and
the editors and contributors gave their services in aid of the cause it
advocated. Among those who wrote for the journal were Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Albert Brisbane, Wm. H. Channing, Elizabeth Peabody, and
Margaret Fuller.
Elizabeth Peabody, though not a member of the Association was warmly
interested in its work and in its welfare. In one of her contributions
to _The Dial_, the organ of the Transcendentalists, she wrote, in
part, as follows: "There are men and women who have dared to say to one
another, 'Why not have our daily life organized on Christ's own idea?
Why not begin to remove the mountain of custom and convention?' In order
to live a religious and moral life, they feel it is necessary to come
out in some degree from the world and form themselves into a community
of property so far as to exclude competition and the ordinary rules of
trade, while they preserve sufficient private property for all purposes
of independence and isolation at will.
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