They appear
to be in active literary and practical connexion with Mr. Doherty,
the intelligent and catholic editor of the London Phalanx, who is
described to us as having been a personal friend of Fourier, and
himself a man of sanguine temper, but a friend of temperate measures,
and willing to carry his points with wise moderation, on one side;
and in friendly relations with Robert Owen, "the philanthropist, `who
writes in brick and clay, in gardens and green fields,' who is a
believer in the comforts and humanities of life, and would give these
in abundance to all men," although they are widely distinguished from
this last in their devout spiritualism. Many of the papers on our
table contain schemes and hints for a better social organization,
especially the plan of what they call "a Concordium, or a Primitive
Home, which is about to be commenced by united individuals, who are
desirous, under industrial and progressive education, with simplicity
in diet, dress, lodging, &c., to retain the means for the harmonic
development of their physical, intellectual, and moral natures.
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