Author: ESTLAKE, ALLAN
Title: The Oneida Community; a record of an attempt to carry out the principles of Christian unselfishness and scientific race-improvement.
Description: London, George Redway. 1900, First Edition. Green Clioth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, viii, 158 pages. The Oneida Community was a religious commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. The Oneida Community was a religious commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in 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 Heaven (a belief called Perfectionism). The Oneida Community practiced Communalism (in the sense of communal property and possessions), Complex Marriage, Male Continence, Mutual Criticism and Ascending Fellowship. There were smaller Noyesian communities in Wallingford, Connecticut; Newark, New Jersey; Putney and Cambridge, Vermont. The Oneida Community dissolved in 1881, and eventually became the giant silverware company Oneida Limited. Fine.

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