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institution is to be in the country, the inmates are to be of both
sexes, they are to labor on the land, their drink is to be water, and
their food chiefly uncooked by fire, and the habits of the members
throughout of the same simplicity. Their unity is to be based on
their education in a religious love, which subordinates all persons,
and perpetually invokes the presence of the spirit in every
transaction. It is through this tendency that these gentlemen have
been drawn into fellowship with a humbler, but far larger class of
their countrymen, of whom Goodwyn Barmby may stand for the
representative.
Mr. Barmby is the editor of a penny magazine, called "The
Promethean, or Communitarian Apostle," published monthly, and, as the
covers inform us, "the cheapest of all magazines, and the paper the
most devoted of any to the cause of the people; consecrated to
Pantheism in Religion, and Communism in Politics." Mr. Barmby is a
sort of Camille Desmoulins of British Revolution, a radical poet,
with too little fear of grammar and rhetoric before his eyes, with as
little fear of the Church or the State, writing often with as much
fire, though not with as much correctness, as Ebenezer Elliott.
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