Journal of American Studies

Table of Contents - 1975 - Volume 9, Issue 02  

Research Article

American Communes, 1865–1914

Robert S. Fogartya1

a1 Antioch College

Emerson's notation in his journal: ‘ They look well in July. We will see them in December ’ about the prospects for Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands venture reflects a commonplace caution about communal ventures. Namely, that the heat of co-operative passion is often insufficient to sustain a community through later problems of crowded circumstances, changing perspectives and weak natures.

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