The Harmony Society, at Economy, Penn'a, Founded

by George Rapp, A.D. 1805.; With an appendix by Aaron Williams

$850 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Pittsburgh, PA: Printed by W.S. Haven, 1866. First edition. 12mo. 182 pp. In form the society was a communistic theocracy, with Rapp the actual dictator. His religious teachings were those of Lutheran pietism heavily overlaid with a millenarianism derived from Bengal and Jung-Stilling, a fantastic interpretation of Swedenborg, various minor features of Boehme and other mystics, and the practice of celibacy ... one of the most successful American communistic

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