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American Heritage (February 1969), pp. 14-17. For a
statement of the principles of Adin Ballou, the founder
of the Hopedale Community, see his Christian Non­
Resistance (New York: Da Capo Press, 1970). For a
commentary on the Hopedale experiment, as well as many
other anarchist and social ist communities in early
n i net e e nth c en t u r yAm e rica, see J 0 hn Hump h r e y Noyes,
History of American Social isms (New York: Hillary
House Pub., 1961), especially pp. 119-32.
(11)Adin Ballou, "Remarks at. tbe First Annual
M e e tin g 0 f ·t heN 0 n - Res i s tan c e Soc i e t y, B 0 s ton ,
Massachusetts, September 25, 1839," Patterns of
Anarchy, eds.: L. I. Kr immerman and Lewis Perry (New
Yo r k : Do ubi e day and Co., 19 6 6 ), PP • 14 6- 47 •
(12)ln Schuster, P. 116.
( 1 3 ) J 0 s i a h War r en, Eq u itab I e Comme r ce (N ew Yo r k :
Bur t Frankl in, 19 5 2 ), P• 58 • For apr e sentat ion 0 f the
d eve lopmen t 0 fin d i v i d uali s tic a narchism t hat i n rna ny
ways parallels that taken here see Lawrence Moss, "Privat
e Pro per t y Anarchism: An Am e rica n Va riant, n Fur ther
Explorat ions in the Theory of Anarchism, ed.: Gordon
Tu·llock (Blackburg, Va.: University Publications,
1974), p. 1-31.
(14)Stephen P. Andrews, The Science of Society
(Weston, Mass.: M and S Press, 1970), p. 13. For an
ex c ell en t, s u c c inc t, s tat erne n t a f And r ews' views see
Bowman Hall "The Economi c Theories of Stephen Pearl
Andrews: Neglected Utopian Writer," The South African
Journal of Economics (March 1975). Hall's conclusion
is that Andrews provided a "lucid and concise statement
of the ideas originally but chaotically proposed by
"Josiah Warren" and that "his philosophy can be said to
carry the Lockean ideas found in the Declaration of
Independence and the ideas found in the The Wealth of
Nations to their logical extreme." On both counts
Hall is surely correct.
(15)Warren, P. 57.
(16)Andrews, p. 63.
(17)Ibid., p. 63. Note the striking similarity
between the thought of Warren and Andrews and the ideas
being propounded independently in France by P. J.
Pro u d h 0 n . Pro u d h 0 n bel i eve d t hat "L i be r t y wa s the
Mother, not the Daughter, of Order."
(18)Ibid., p. 64.
(19)Warren, p. 61. Warren admitted that there
might be a few cases where individualism was impossible.
In such cases he allowed for a "Deliberative
Council" which would be composed of community leaders
or exper ts. The Counci 1 would be called into session
to dISCUSS a particular problem and dissolve itself
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