Word: fourier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conspicuous among the adolescent pimples of the U. S. were the Utopian socialisms which broke out sporadically in the 19th Century on the maps of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio. There were Owenite communities in the 1820s, Fourier phalanges in the 1840s, spiritualist communes in the 1850s. As one Utopia failed, the Utopians, dogged, idealistic, excitable, looked round for new capital, moved to the next county, started another Utopia. Most Utopians came from the cities and were bad farmers. Most of them acquired too much land, which was foreclosed at the first slim crop. New Harmony...
...printed questions and answers (copyrighted by Mr. Brisbane) last week. Most significant were Editor Brisbane's replies concerning the influence of his father, Albert Brisbane, who in the 1830's and 1840's was the principal disciple in the U. S. of the French Sociologist (François) Charles Marie Fourier...
...elder Brisbane bought at advertising rates a front-page column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, wrote therein every day for two years of Fourier's plans for the development of small cooperative communities (called Associations), in which manual labor should be dignified, social distractions nonexistent. At Freehold, N. J. Albert Brisbane founded such a community, forerunner of famed Brook Farm at West Roxbury, Mass...