, 1879-01-26
:: ONEIDA COMMUNITY.
7ha Only Ayowed Free-Love Associ-
alton in the United
- States.
1mnrcssions OF Mr. 4. J. Grover, Who
Recently Visited the Com
nlunity.
s,xao1 Correspondence Of The 1Hbuns.

sD,eio1 Correspondence Of The 14ihtns.
nsr1pA COMMUNITY, n. T., Jan. 19.-Agreea-
!. IN nrou,ise write you from the "Home u
~ The on,y practically and ayowedly Free-Loye
community in the United States propose to
III your readers what these good people say of
I'D claim for themselves. They have not usu-
a,1r beeu reported from their own, but from an
nnfricndly point Of view.
There are twenty-eight associations Of men
and women, more or less on the cooperative
n1.n. ID the United States; seventeen are Of
shaker ortgit or character, in which co-opera-
tim and celibacy are .1he peculiar features.
There are six or seven where the monogamic
marriage is maintained, with nothing peculiar
went some religious dogma or superstition,
,,d co-operatiou. There Is only one-thc
o,e,da Coumunitr-where Free Love and
s,,7n;cnlture arc united with cooperation, as
distinguishing principles.
u,ny of these cooperative associations are
,ts sniritual children Of the "Brook Farm,
massachusetts,, experiment, in which DR.. Will
am r. Claiming, tue Rev. William Il. Chan
tnfre George Ripley, DR.. John c. Warren, Mar
a,-rt Fnller, George ". Curtis, and other dis
,;npu;shei thinkers and writers were the lead
NO shirts. Horace Greeley, G. A. Dana, Park
;odrin, T. ". Aieginsou, Henry James, and
o+hcrs heralded the details OF the experiment,
and the principles upon which it was based, far
end vide through the press. The result In a
c,,s,ter of century, OF the seed then sown, is a
-,.ttr qood crop Of communities 10 this country.
The Oneida Community is located ID the
Tam Of Lenox, Madison County, n. T., three
snd one-half miles southeast of Oneida Village,
Tni. fr nf
the finest Yallcys in the State, aud was started
in small way in 1S4S, with material trans
n,anted from Putney, IT., under the leadership
Of the
REV. JOHN HUMPHREY NOTES.
xho WAS then 81 years Of age. Mr. NoyeE Is
eousIn of President Hayes, and also OF United
States Minister Noyes, now at Paris. he would
h. 4 marked man anywhere; being five feet
ten inches in hight, Of commanding presence,
and yerr positive character. he studied at
Amherst, Dartmouth, Andovcr, and Yale. His
father was a col1ege-graduate, a State Repre-
sentative, and member Of Congress. In leading
RELIGIOUS principles he is orthodox, but is hated
by The orthodox people as much as Col. lnger-
soil. He insists that religion ought to mean
something, and should stand for something In
practical life.
The re.sou why John Humphrey Noyes has
hon ah,a IN huild I'm. the Oneida Community
..r- .ho r.oonr;-ad rato.i,p of tfa
e1io " ASao'e AA
sexes, ana ecouotuleal loss'%nt!one "nu %@osAo!f
ties OF the country aud the world, is because he
is really moral hero, practical genius, and
religious enthusiast, equal to the under
a..- 80, - 49, t,,o.. +,,nn w.
kaoetcu apous ni1'' auu, ~, eoa, ~.
lleTe, blcsseo, beAeVe 1nat ne Is 1usoi1cu. 1n1s
conviction has come from alwnys finding him to
he rirht in all his ca1cnlatiOns nolicies and
r,ars rha ,rr;tar ,s,:ed him q; How he rot
r. r-'@' s, -Ac "A'1. @s 1s ..x..ar1. .,.Tr
Inc moral courage 10 raofeal.y ueiJ
the usages Of society as ne old thlr'y
years ago, and does still" he re-
piled, II don't know. don't think
It was COURAGE l vas al"avs oasntul ana
t1uaio. ana lacked confidence 10 myself. 6uf,
while lacking the courage, could nevertheless
20 no ot1rT"ase tAan dld ana nave zone, oes1
cause haTe a!ways lc!t ttlat was Ilght anu
mn7 90 JoT1dfu ~ Me PAIN q 0u'y. lou may
cal! It fortune, luck, Or providence, but call it
"lln Noles, as with Luther: Wesley. ana
Offers, 1t IS religious enthusiasm, out coupled
Win genius Tor pract:ca! affairs that Viii DC
!ouhu 70 oe me secret OF hls success ne an,
" lt,slpateo alauccsly, CarueGtef, Ut. ho"e, anu
t1e otflef scientists IN ire conception of tAe'
uanscendcnt Importance OF
tue LATs OF HEREDITY AND REPRODUCTION
rs appl;ed to the human race: and, having the
idea, be proceeded to aaply it hy bold illnoya-
ton sin the tace OF tro;yniug world.'' lie
ssw the excess and ccbaucl,f1y il marriage, and
The social eyl and prostitution outside Of mar
aEe; iu slcrt, lie perceived the universal abuse
II The sexual, parental, and reproductive facul-
les and functions OF the race, and proposed to
sL an exampls oi virtue, purltP, anu ooeoience,
arouen lhteAlsent 1nsttuct1on' 1cu9lous anu