page_title: Oneida Community
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caption_attribution_description: English: The late Reverend John Humphrey Noyes Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches) Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog) Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage Publisher: New York&#160;: Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.) Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ss and cruel freedom; but our impression is that their position,scattered as they are, without organization or definite separation from sur-rounding society, makes it impossible for them to follow and care for theconsequences of their freedom, and thus exposes them to the just charge oflicentiousness. At all events their platform is entirely different from ours,and they must answerfor themselves. We arenot free lovers, in anysense that makes loveless binding or responsi-ble than it is in mar-riage. Under the head ofA Social Analysisthey present the follow-ing disquisition on mar-riage, prostitution, oldmaidhood and Commu-nism: Let us, theylay, analyze t! 3 posi-tion of women in ordi-nary society, and seewhat are the chances thatare offered to them. Wo- the late rev. j. h. notes. men require, like meu, or Tbe Founder of the Oneida Community, perhaps more than men, two things for their proper existence, viz.: 1, aguaranty of bodily support; and 2, love, or social appreciation, Ihese two Text Appearing After Image: 732 COMPLEX MARKIAGE. things sum up, for women, the primary natural wants around which allothers are grouped. Now the last-named necessity—the love part—wouldtake care of itself if allowed to act separately. The attractions with whichwomen are created would secure their due supply of affection, free from allconditions or exactions, if they could have independent play. But the weak-ness of women on the point of support enables society to complicate thismatter with the love question, so as to enforce their being treated to-gether; and the consequence is that man is placed in a position to offerwomen certain alternatives, one of which she must accept. Having ap-propriated to himself the learned professions and the lucrative industrial pur-suits&#160;; having made it disreputable for women to pursue much other businessthan that of millinery work and attending the nursery, and having shapedtheir education accordingly; having in short got immensely the start of wo-man in the opportunities of Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Oneida Community was a perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes and his followers in 1848 near Oneida, New York. The community believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, making it possible for them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just in Heaven. The Oneida Community practiced communalism, complex marriage, male sexual continence, and mutual criticism. There were smaller Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont. The community's original 87 members grew to 172 by February 1850, 208 by 1852, and 306 by 1878. The branches were closed in 1854 except for the Wallingford branch, which operated until the 1878 tornado devastated it. The Oneida Community dissolved in 1881, and eventually became the silverware company Oneida Limited.
context_section_description: The Oneida Community was a perfectionist religious communal society founded by John Humphrey Noyes and his followers in 1848 near Oneida, New York. The community believed that Jesus had already returned in AD 70, making it possible for them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just in Heaven (a belief called perfectionism). The Oneida Community practiced communalism (in the sense of communal property and possessions), complex marriage, male sexual continence, and mutual criticism.  There were smaller Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont. The community's original 87 members grew to 172 by February 1850, 208 by 1852, and 306 by 1878. The branches were closed in 1854 except for the Wallingford branch, which operated until the 1878 tornado devastated it. The Oneida Community dissolved in 1881, and eventually became the silverware company Oneida Limited.
caption: John Humphrey Noyes (1811-1886) led the community
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