1st. To be well acquainted with the Icarian writings.

It is necessary to approve the Icarian system; and, to be able to do this, one must know it; and, in order to have this knowledge, one must be acquainted with the writings which expose it, especially the *Voyage in Icaria*.—*How I am a Communist*.—*My Communistic Creed*.—*The 12 Letters concerning Communism*.—*True Christianity*.—*The Icarian Colony or Republic*. Each family should have a copy of each of these works and of these Conditions.

No one should ask for admission into the Icarian Society, if he does not know the system & its writings; the first thing to be done is to obtain and study them.

2d. To know how to read, to write and to sign the name. (The French is the public language in Icaria.)

In order to fulfil the first condition, it will be necessary to be able to read, and study the Icarian writings. It will be necessary also to be able to read, and even to write and subscribe demands, acts and engagements. Not to know how to read will be attended with great inconveniences. Moreover, he who does not yet know, can learn before presenting him-

self; and if he desires ardently to know it, he will learn in a short time.

However, if a workman, especially from the country, has become acquainted with the Icarian principles, through the explanations of friends; if he possesses all the qualities of a good Icarian, and if he would be likely to be a very useful member, the fact of his not being able to read and write will be no obstacle to his admission, at least to his provisional admission.

3rd. To adopt completely the Icarian system.

The Icarian Colony has one special aim; that of proving, by experience, that Icarian Communism is possible. Consequently, for any one to enter it, it is absolutely necessary to adopt completely, with an entire conviction, without any hesitation and without any repugnance, the Icarian system, its doctrine and its principles. In one word, to be admitted to found *Icaria*, it is necessary to be in truth an Icarian.

Each one is entirely at liberty not to adopt the principles and conditions of the Community, without being held in less esteem; but then he should not present himself as an Icarian: it is an affair of probity. He who would cause himself

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to be admitted by deceiving the Commu-
nity in this respect, would commit a spe-
cies of treason and expose himself to be-
ing unhappy, while he would trouble and
compromise the Colony or Community.

4th. To act *devotedly* to the Icarian Community, for the interest of the People and of the entire Human Race, considering himself as a *Soldier of Humanity*.

It is not wrong for an Icarian to desire
to make a part of the Icarian Community
for his own reasonable and well under-
stood personal interest, particularly for
that of his wife and children; but to at-
tain his object, in co-operating for the
prosperity of the Community, it is neces-
sary, first of all, that he devote himself;
that he engage to devote himself; that he
consider himself as a Soldier of Humani-
ty, determined to fulfil all the duties of a
soldier, always ready to support pri-
vations, fatigues and perils, always
submissive to discipline and always faith-
ful to his standard.

5th. To be devoted especially to the
cause of women and children.

One of the principal aims of the Icarian
Community is to render to women and
children all their rights and to do every-
thing to insure their happiness.

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One of the first duties of an Icarian is
to protect women, to respect them, and to
neglect nothing to render them happy.

6th. To adopt the principle of Equality
in all things—without any privilege for
any one.

The Equality is not absolute, but rela-
tive; Equality of toils according to the
strength, Equality of enjoyments accord-
ing to the wants; Equality in everything,
in the nourriture, in the lodgings, in the
clothing; Equality especially in the ward-
robe, for the purpose of avoiding one of
the most fruitful sources of jealousies, of
quarrels and of troubles.

Wardrobes, because of their inequali-
ties, have been one of the principal causes
of all the discussions amongst women, of
all the divisions and of all the difficulties
for administration. As soon as the thing
shall be possible, the Community will fur-
nish the same wardrobes to all the men,
to all the women and to all the children,
taking away the old wardrobes and dis-
posing of them on the best terms for the
general interest.

7th. To adopt the principle of Frater-
nity.

To accept it with all its consequences ;

to adopt its associates for Brothers and
Sisters; to promise to aid, defend and
love them, to be indulgent and tolerant,
to smother every emotion of anger and
resentment, and to practice in all things
this precept, "Do unto others that which
you wish that others do unto you.

8th. To abstain carefully from all injuries, from all abuses, and from all calumnies.

This is an essential condition; for quarrels, offensive words, reproaches and accusations trouble and compromise the Colony. Before admission, every one may and should communicate all that can be an obstacle to the admission: but after the admission has taken place, all reproaches concerning former conduct should be avoided.

9th. To adopt the principle of True Liberty.

To promise to respect the liberty of
others and to practice the maxim, "Do
not to another that which you would that
he should not do to you;" and to submit
to a decision of the majority, preceded by
a free and regular discussion.

10th. To adopt the principle of Com-

munity, by renouncing all individual property.

This is the fundamental point of the Icarian doctrine. An Icarian cannot be the proprietor of anything, neither of his lodgings, his clothing, his utensils, nor of his arms, &c., &c. He has the use or the enjoyment of the objects which the Community intrusts to him, but he does not own them: the ownership can only pertain to the Community, amongst the members of which it is undivided, social or common property. During the first years, and until the Society is completely based, organized and developed, all the books should be placed in a common library; likewise so, all the instruments in the cabinets of physic and chemistry; all the utensils in the workshops or in the magazin; and all the arms, &c., in the arsenal or the social depot.

11th. To adopt the principle of Unity.

To promise to use all endeavors that
the Community constitute but one body,
one soul, one heart and one mind.

12th. To carry or cede to the Community all his goods of whatever nature.

His money, his moveables, his immovables, his accounts, &c., &c.; even his

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wardrobe, his jewels, his utensils, his
arms, his books, &c., in one word, all his
goods, present and prospective, even fu-
ture donations and successions, because,
in Community, no one can be richer than
another, nor have personal property, be-
cause no one can be better treated than a-
nother.

13th. Nothing should be concealed or
held back.

He who conceals or retains a portion of
his property will be richer than he who
gives his all. He will be less devoted,
less constant, less faithful, more disposed
to withdraw without any cause, and more
capable of inducing others to go with him.

If any one cannot approve this condi-
tion of giving his all, he is at perfect li-
berty to reject it; but then he should not
present himself for admission. To de-
clare that one has given his all, while he
retains something, will be lying, deceiv-
ing, violating the principles, not to be an
licarian, and even committing a kind of
theft; it would be, consequently, a fault
exceedingly grave!

14th. To bring to Nauvoo, at least 400
francs or 80 dollars, independent of a good
and complete wardrobe, sufficient for two
years.

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It is above all for the interest of the
poor that the Community has been con-
ceived and will be established; conse-
quently it would be infinitely desirable
that it were able to receive those who ha-
ve nothing except large families, and good
qualities and talents. We doubt not but
that the Community will pursue this
course some day, after it shall have been
established by the devotion of those who
have contributed something to commence
it; but for the present and for some time
to come, a small portion is and will be ab-
solutely necessary, in order to consumate
the purposes of the enterprise. A wo-
man must remit the same portion as her
husband; each child, under seven years
old will be required to pay 200 francs or
40 dollars. Each one will also be requir-
ed to pay his travelling expenses till his
arrival at Nauvoo. No one should start
with the expectation that the over-plus of
another's portion will be turned over to
him without special authority, received
from the Society before his departure.
On arriving at Nauvoo, each one should
give a detailed *inventory*, containing his
wardrobe and utensils. This inventory
will be verified.

He who should present himself with-
out his wardrobe and portion, will com-
mit a very grave fault and expose himself
to the disgrace of being *refused*. Such

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an one would not be an Icarian, but an e-
gotist, since he would compromise the
Community. He would not even be rea-
sonable, since he would find himself in a
compromised Community.

15th. Each one should exercise a useful
industry, or be able to employ himself at
some useful occupation.

In Community, every one should work,
and work equally—each according to his
strength.

16th. To engage to work the earth, if
it should be necessary.

The cultivation of the earth may be the
first necessity in the commencement of
the Colony; all then should be willing
to engage in it.

17th. To engage to work in the work-
shops.

In Community, all work is executed,
not in particular lodgments, but in large
workshops, fixed or moveable.

18th. To devote to the Community all
his industry, all his capacity, and all his
time.

Neither can work, either for himself,

his family or his friends. This is not ne-
cessary, since the Community works for
all, and it would be neglecting the com-
mon work, and even exciting jealousies
and disputes. One should work, apply-
ing always the principle : Each for all,
all for each.

19th. To be laborious.

Each one has more or less aptitude, fa-
cility, taste and even habit of working ;
but as labor is the life of a Colony just
springing into existence, as there will ne-
cessarily be many remarkable for their
ardor, their zeal & their devotion to labor,
one who can do but little will naturally
find himself exposed to jealousies, to cri-
ticisms, and to accusations of faint heart-
edness and laziness, which, although
exaggerated, will not fail to give trouble
to the Society. He then who has not the
facility or habit of labor should refrain
from asking his admission.

20th. To be vigorous.

All which has been said in the preced-
ing number will be applicable to this.—
Besides, the voyages upon the sea and
upon land with all their privations and
torments, are very painful, especially on
account of the tempests, or the bad roads,
and exhaust the vigor, like the first labors

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of clearing and constructing a Colony.—
He who would present himself without
having the necessary strength and vigor
would compromise, at the same time, both
himself and the Community.

21st. Not to be too aged.

When Icaria shall be well founded and
developed in all its perfection, far from
possessing any feeling unfavorable for old
men, it will entertain nothing but senti-
ments of regard, of respect and kindness
towards them; but in the start, in the
commencement, if the Community had
nothing but old men, or if they were too
numerous, it would perish with them;
for, as a general thing, they are infirm,
without force and without activity, and
especially exposed each day to become
sick or enfeebled, or unfit for labor, cases
in which they become a charge so much
the more heavy as the Community will
endeavor to spare and care for them.—
Notwithstanding, the general interest may
authorize some rare exceptions. But it
would be a great imprudence for an old
man, to place himself en route for the Co-
lony without having previously received
from Nauvoo special instruction to come.

22nd. To have no contagious, or incur-
able or grave malady, nor any infirmity

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which can prevent him from labor.

In the first place, the sick or infirm are
unfit for the labor and fail at the work-
shop. Then, infirmaries, special cooks,
a pharmacy, remedies more or less exten-
sive, physicians, nurses, watchers, &c.,
become necessary. A portion of those
who are well are employed and their time
is taken up by their attentions upon the
sick. Deaths being more frequent pro-
duce effects more or less sad. All the
combinations of labor and of the work-
shops, of repasts and expenses, become
reversed. The inconveniences are enorm-
ous and innumerable, without considering
that of being able to ameliorate rapidly
the Icarian generations, which is one of
the principal objects of the Community.
These inconveniences have already en-
dangered our enterprise at the commen-
cement in 1848 and 1849, when the
young and vigorous men deserted their
post and left us with a disproportionate
number of old men, women, children and
invalids. Therefore we want sound heal-
thy men: we do not require a certificate;
it is an affair of honor.

23d. To be temperate, frugal and simple.

Some day, Icaria will give to her mem-
bers the useful and the agreeable, without
any other limit than reason, the prescrip-

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tions of hygien and the necessity of main-
taining equality without any privilege, in
accordance with the principle: for all or
for none; but in the commencement, at
the epoch of formation, it is necessary to
apply the Icarian rule: first the necessary,
then the useful, and at last the agreeable.
Therefore it is necessary to be temperate,
frugal, simple in all things, in the nour-
riture, in the clothing, lodging and fur-
niture, as it becomes a soldier of Human-
ity, a devoted servant of the Community.
He who would be a gmand, an Epicure,
a sportsman, would only be the slave of
his senses, incapable and unworthy of be-
ing one of the Founders of the Commun-
ity. Without being happy himself in a
young and feeble Community, he will
bring trouble to it by his exigencies and
regrets.

24th. No tobacco.

Tobacco is generally useless, often in-
jurious, disagreeable to those who do not
use it, enslaving, expensive and often
dangerous. It creates often a want so
imperious that men have been known to
put an end to their existence to deliver
themselves of the terment of not having
tobacco. It is often a great embarrassment
to procure tobacco while on a voyage or
in the desert. It is an expense to be re-
greited when there is a necessity for eco-

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nomising for the Colony or for those
Brothers who ask to be aided to come to
unite with it. It is disgusting, for ex-
ample, in a cook, and, as was once the
case with us, it might prevent those from
employing him when they needed his
services. It is dangerous; for more than
once has the pipe or the cigar caused
fires. We ourselves have unhappily had
experience of it; one of our teamsters,
by his pipe set fire to a building which,
with all it contained, was consumed by
the flames, causing us a heavy loss, and
might have burned the whole Community.
persons and property. And the use of
tobacco had become a passion so dominant
that the same teamster, in spite of this
terrible lesson, recommenced smoking in
another stable, although in violation of po-
sitive rules; others smoke in the common
refectory, or in the sleeping rooms, others
in their chambers, and some even in
their beds at the risk of burning every-
thing!

When Icaria shall have become suffi-
ciently great and strong, she will then do
what she may judge best in this respect.
It is probable, however, that tobacco will
not be admitted, or only as a medecine or
remedy, after the prescription of a physi-
cian. The Colony will have enough of
other enjoyments more proper and less
individual !

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But at present, the interdiction of tobacco appears to us a necessity, and certainly we will not suffer our children to learn the habit.

Let him then who has the habit of using tobacco not start for the Icarian Colony, unless he feel that he has sufficient courage to discord the habit on the voyage.

On his arrival he will engage never to smoke in any building, nor even in another place, as also not to snuff nor to chew.

However, as there are some men who may have this practice, of which they may think it impossible to break themselves immediately, it will not be an insurmountable objection; but they should engage to make all efforts to rid themselves of the habit as soon as possible.

### 25th. No strong liquor.

It is about the same as with tobacco. It is useless, injurious, expensive and dangerous. Some workmen have insisted that they could not work without taking whiskey once and even several times during the day, and reclamations upon the subject of whiskey have been the source of much embarrassment in the administration of the Colony. Nevertheless, cannot a true Icarian forgo the use of whiskey as all the Icarians have that of wine

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for the use of coffee and tea at their repasts?

Still, if some liquor should appear necessary, in the morning, before commencing work, the Community will distribute it.

26th To have no predilections or repugnances for certain aliments, which would render alimentation too expensive or too difficult.

To say, for example: *I will not breakfast without coffee or milk, or I cannot eat bacon, I must have something else, is not a crime certainly; but when such things take place in founding a Colony in the desert, it is an embarrassment, an expense, an inconvenience, and in the place of emigrating, persons of this disposition had better to rest where they are.*

27th. To be accustomed or resigned to the pains and to the inconveniencies of the common life.

When Icaria shall have become perfect in its strength and power its common workshops and its machines, its kitchens, its tables, its libraries, it will be another thing than the libraries, machines, kitchens, &c., which each one has in individualism; and when the Community shall furnish to all its workmen separate lod-

gements, appropriate and commodious,
with all the necessary furniture, the so-
cial life will possess almost nothing but
advantages without inconveniences and
will be infinitely more happy than the in-
dividual. But, at present, while they
voyage en masse, heaped up in a vessel
upon the sea or in the river; while they
lodge, eat and work in a kind of confusion
and pellmell, they are necessarily tor-
mented, incommoded, deprived of a por-
tion of their liberty; and hence there
spring up quarrels, discontents and divis-
ions which trouble and menace the exis-
tence of the Society; the first Icarian ex-
peditions have furnished only too many
proofs of these things, for it was perhaps
the quarrels resulting from the torment of
the voyage that contributed principally to
the first divisions and to the first disas-
ters. Yet, these voyages, the confusion and
pain must necessarily be endured during
the period of laying the foundation, one
should therefore habituate himself in ad-
vance, or resign himself, as a courageous
and devoted soldier, to all the torments of
the common life; and if any feel that they
have not the force to make this sacrifice,
they had better rest where they are than
enter the Community and compromise its
experience.

28th. To dispose of nothing which be-
to the Community.

Each one is a co-proprietor of all
things which belong to the Community,
and nothing belongs exclusively to any in-
dividual. Everything belongs to all, and
nothing to a particular person. Conse-
quently, the Society, or the authority
which represents it, has the sole right to
depose of anything whatever; hence no
one can dispose of anything by his own
will, for his own personal interest or that
of another; to dispose of anything arbitra-
rily would be to commit a kind of theft
and especially of disorder. Let each one
reflect well upon this engagement.

29th. No envy or jealousy.

One of the principal sources of unlock-
ed for difficulties in the Community since
the first departure, is envy and jealousy,
passions essentially opposed to Fraterni-
ty. Sound yourselves, then, and if you
feel that you have any envious disposition
do not come!

30th. To avoid exciting envy.

But that one who would wish some
privileges, who is vain because of some
advantages he may possess, and who
would take pleasure in exciting envy and
jealousy, would be still more unworthy
of the title of an Icarian : let him not co-
me to Icaria; for he will find there neither
esteen nor happiness.

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31st. To be accustomed to cleanliness.

When one lives in individualism, if he is alone, he can be unclean without giving offence to any one. And yet uncleanliness, which may compromise the health, is neither suitable for any reasonable and reflecting man, who has the sentiment of human dignity, nor above all for an Icarian who wishes to work for the amelioration and for the perfection of Humanity; but in the social or common life, and above all in the fraternal life, cleanliness in all things, upon the body and in the clothing, in the lodging and in the furniture, in the kitchen and in the infirmary, in the work and in the workshop, at the table and in the reunions, is a rigorous duty of fraternity toward the Brothers, which the sight of uncleanliness might offend and wound... Uncleanliness might at the same time be a source of danger for the general health and a cause of quarrels and divisions in the Colony.

32nd. To observe decency everywhere, in actions and in words.

It is one of the first duties of the social and common life.—Obscenity is entirely useless and more worthy a brute than a man. Without doubt decency and modesty will be amongst the principal objects of Icarian education for the young boys as

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for the young girls, and consequently the men and the women should carefully avoid everything which might be a bad example or a bad lesson for the children.—Without doubt also, the Icarians, who engage to devote themselves to the cause of the women (No. 5th), would not wish to show their want of respect for them and to outrage them in using in their presence words which they could not hear without blushing. Consequently it is a duty for the Icarians, in all things, to respect decority and modesty which are the most beautiful ornaments of women, and amongst the most efficacious means of assuring the common happiness.

33d. To be careful, economical.

To see that nothing is broken, nothing destroyed; to be careful that nothing is lost, to economise so as to expend nothing without a necessity for it, are duties which reasonable men owe to themselves, even while living in individualism; but for an Icarian, in the interest of the Community, they are duties far more imperious, since Icarians have promised devotion to the Community. (No. 4.)

Everything which is lost or which is suffered to be lost, or which is expended without necessity, is a kind of robbery from those Icarians whom poverty hinders from coming to us and who could be en-

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abled to come if the Colony would use
care and economy; and if any member of
the Colony should say: "I have no need
of being careful and economizing, since
it is the Community which defrays ex-
penses," he will violate at once all the
principles and all his engagements.

34th. Not to hunt or fish as a recrea-
tion.

As a means of furnishing aliment,
hunting and fishing can be useful & con-
sidered as a work and a function, and then
it will be necessary to select the hunters
and fishermen experienced and practiced,
organizing them in a manner as to render
their labor fruitful; but considered as
pleasures, hunting and fishing would be
individual pleasures, fatiguing, perillous,
expensive and opposed to the Icarian prin-
ciples. What would become of the wo-
men, on the days of rest, should the men
abandon them to amuse themselves in the
chase or at fishing? And then, was it to
amuse themselves that the Icarians left
their country and came three thousand
leagues, taking upon themselves the title
of soldiers of Humanity? While the I-
carians shall be on the march in the des-
ert, they should have guns to defend them-
selves and to furnish nourriture from the
chase; but when they are settled, to spend
money for arms and powder to amuse

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themselves in killing worthless animals,
is an inconsequence.

35th. To observe silence.

Silence is a necessity, at the school, in
the office, at the infirmary, in a course, in
a public assembly; at the table it is a rule
generally adopted, as in the large meetings;
in the workshop during work it is still a
kind of necessity if they wish that each
one work without hindering others from
working.

We do not speak of the words and the
noise which are necessary to the execu-
tion of labor itself, but of those causes
which are foreign to labor and which hin-
der or injure it.

It is a torment, says some one perhaps!
But there are many others of them, thou-
sands of others in the old society! To
have all the advantages of association it is
necessary to make some sacrifices. Hence
there is no Community without labor and
no labor without silence. Experience
has enlightened us. Many of the diffi-
culties experienced by the Colony up to
the present, have originated in prattles or
discussions in the workshops, discussions
which have nearly always resulted in ca-
lumnies, in criticisms, which have produ-
ced trouble in the Society.

It is necessary also to avoid screaming

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out and making useless noise which may
incommode some one.

36th. To love organization and order.

It is true that organization and order
are restraints upon liberty; but this res-
traint is a necessity; for without organi-
zation and without order no labor, no pro-
duction, no Society is possible.

37th. To submit to discipline.

It is the same thing with discipline :
without it, there is no labor, no Society
possible. We know that the word discipline
is offensive to some ears; but why should
Icarians feel themselves wounded or hu-
miliated by having, in all their great move-
able workshops, & in all their great works,
chiefs or directors, when those directors
are chosen by themselves, for the general
interest of labor, when each workman can
be a director, and when those who direct
or command are obliged to do it with fra-
ternity? He is not an Icarian who is not
willing to take the engagement to obey
without resistance and without murmur;
for this would produce anarchy, which
would paralyse everything, and there
would be discord and chaos which would
destroy the Society. If there be any then
who are not willing to submit to organiz-
ation and order, let them not come to Ica-

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ria; for all agree in saying that quality is
to be preferred to quantity.

38th. To be disposed to marry when it
can be done.

Marriage is the ordinary and general
rule in Icaria; society, order and peace
are there founded upon marriage and fa-
mily; Community will be perfect there
only when it shall have no colibacy.

39th, To adopt for their Religion, the
TRUE CHRISTIANITY, and for their wor-
ship the practice of FRATERNITY.

When Icaria shall arrive to perfection,
when the Icarian education shall have
formed generations the most enlightened
and the most untrammeld by superstitious,
prepossessions and prejudices, the most
complete liberty will then protect all re-
ligious opinions and all worships, if it be
possible that the highest developement of
human intelligence and human reason in
all the Icarians shall not form the same
opinion upon religion and worship as
upon all other questions. But at present,
and during the epoch of formation, it is
necessary that all those who present
themselves to enter Icaria have the same
religion and the same worship to evade
all discussions and all quarrels upon this
subject. And this Icarian Religion is

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Christianity in its primitive purity as it is exposed in a work entitled: TRUE CHRISTIANITY, based upon the idea of a first cause called Nature or God, considered as the Father of all men. All those who wish to profess and proclaim Materialism, or Atheism, or Catholicism, and who wish the catholic worship with its cathedrals, its priests, its confession and its ceremonies, are perfectly free to have them and we will respect their opinions; but let them not come amongst us, because we have need of harmony and of unity.

40th. To engage never to be hostile.

To be hostile towards the Community for which they have sworn love and devotion, towards comrads whom they have adopted for brothers, would be a monstrosity. Yet, we have seen this monstrosity, and it has done us injury. It is on this account that we require the applicant to take the engagement which he can do upon his arrival, never to be hostile.

41st. To take nothing away, in spite of the Society.

This would be a real theft, which might disorganize and compromise the Society. Yet, a sad experience condemns us to demand the formal engagement to carry nothing away without the consent of the Community.

42nd. It is as necessary for women, married or unmarried, to fulfil all the foregoing conditions as for men.

There are stronger reasons for making woman comply with the conditions than man; for when she is not imbued with the spirit of Icarianism, she can draw her husband away and bring to the Community more trouble and disorder. We have had sad experience of this in 1849; there were some women who called themselves Icarians but who were not, who by no means understood our doctrines, who had only egotism and vainty with ignorance, without social qualities and without judgement, and who left France only to screen their husbands from the persecution which their revolutionary conduct had drawn upon them; these women, we say, have been the principal cause of desertions and withdrawals, by their influence upon feeble and blind husbands.

43rd. To guarantee that his wife has really fulfilled all the conditions.

In order to be admitted with their wives, several Icarians have declared that their wives possessed the same principles while in reality they did not, and had only left their homes from a kind of restraint, or from some motive of personal and selfish interest. This was a fault

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infinitely grave on the part of the husbands,
it was wanting in the first duty of an Ica-
rian, which should be devotion to the
Community.

44th. To guarantee that his children
have no essential vices, either moral or
physical.

Children, who will be born in Icaria
and of whom the Community will have
charge of the education, will have no
vices which will be difficult to correct.
In some years when the Community shall
have sufficient means, in money, in lod-
gings, and in instructors, she can take
charge of from one to ten thousand chil-
dren without dreading their faults, their
bad habits or even their vices; but during
the first years of formation, the bad habits
and the vices of some children, especially
those a little advanced in age, may occa-
sion grave difficulties, as we know but
too well by experience. It is necessary
then that the children have no essential
defects and that their parents warrant
them, under their moral responsibility.

45th. To consent that the Community
dispose completely of the children.

The education of the child should com-
ment at its birth, and this education will
form the strength and hope of the Commu-

nity. It is necessary that the Community
dispose entirely of the children, from their
birth, without being contrained by their
parents. Without doubt the mother should
have the right of nursing her child; but
all the questions which relate to his
physical, moral and intellectual educa-
tion concern the Community. Yet there
are mothers, ignorant and obstinate, op-
posed to all amelioration, to all reform,
who have compromised the health and
even the life of their children, by a blind
tenderness and by senseless prejudices.
Hence it is necessary that each one for-
mally give their consent to this condition.
If there are those to whom this condition
is repugnant they are at perfect liberty to
reject it; but let them not present them-
selves for admission, for they are not
Icarians.

46th. To accept the Constitution, de-
liberated and adopted at Nauvoo, with
all the laws and declarations, made and
to be made, and to engage to execute
them without criticism and without mur-
muring.

This is a manifest necessity without
this faithful execution there is no Society
possible; and one of our most essential
political principles is that each one has a
perfect right to oppose any project of law;

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but that after a free and regular vote, the
minority should submit to the majority,
and execute the law as a sacred thing.

47th. To remit, on arriving at Nau-
voo, the following information.

1st, A detailed account of all that they
bring with them : money, clothing, lin-
nen, property, utensils, books, &c.;—
2nd, a written and subscribed testimony
to adopt the Constitution and all the
foregoing conditions; — 3rd, a demand
for admission.

48th. The applicant should present himself before a Commission, charged with verifying his informations, — of interrogating and examining him, — of opening an inquest, — and of making its report to the Gerance and to the General Assembly, who shall proclame upon his demand for admission.

Made at Nauvoo on January 22d 1850.

Published at Paris on June 12th 1850.

CABET,

President of the Icarian Society.

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