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 : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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y-three acres ; business, horticulture, publishing, and job printing. The OneidaCommunity and branches are not Free Lovers in the popular sense of the term.They call their social system Complex Marriage, and hold to freedom of loveonly within their own families, subject to free criticism and the rule ofmale continence. The foregoing i3 substantially their card, as presented in their weeklypaper called the Circular, a publication which is interesting even to those 720 COMPLEX MARRIAGE. who entirely disagree with them in their social, and religious theories.Their history is presented by themselves in the following language: Asthe pilgrim fathers fled from old England to New England, so, in 1848, theleaders of the Oneida Community fled from New England, to New York, andsettled in Lenox, Madison County, on the banks of the Oneida Creek. Therethey were joined by other families and members from New York, NewJersey, Yermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, till their numbers amount- Fta.lGS.
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A GROUP OF THE ONEIDA COMMUNISTS. ed to about two hundred and fifty. They were much despised in the firstyears of their settlement, but God prospered them, and they went steadilyforward, buying land, building houses, and establishing manufactures, tillthey are now, after twenty years, in a fair way to be as respectable as theirPuritan forefathers. The main religious features of the Community consist in an inexpungablenotion that Christianity means the abolition of selfishness j that Jesua MARRIAGE IN THE NEW WORLD. 7£1 Christ came into the world aa an emancipator from that kind of slavery; thatwhoever soundly believes and confesses him, is thereby freed; that hiskingdom was founded and his second coming took place eighteen hundredyears ago; and that all progress, civilization, and reform since, have beenthe fruit of the heavenly organization of which he is the centre. The Community believes with Christ, that marriage ownership is to boabolished when the will of God is done on earth a

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