In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual intercourse should be restrained by law, than why eating and drinking should be; and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other. Two Hundred Years of American Communes - Page 169by Iaácov Oved - 1987 - 516 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 1842 - 530 pages
...about the Yankee sect of " Pauline Socialists," whose " Magna Charta" contains such a passage as this : "In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual...than why eating and drinking should be, and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other." This, it seems, is termed " Gospel freedom,"... | |
| Hubbard Eastman - 1849 - 446 pages
...thanksgiving dinner to claim each his separate dish, and quarrel with the rest for his rights. In a Itoly community there is no more reason why sexual intercourse...why eating and drinking should be — and there is cry little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other. God has placed a wall of partition between... | |
| William Hepworth Dixon - 1868 - 392 pages
...at a thanksgivingdinner to claim each his separate dish, and quarrel with the rest for his rights. In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual...than why eating and drinking should be ; and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other. God has placed a wall of partition between... | |
| 1868 - 692 pages
...at a thanksgiving dinner to claim each his separate dish and quarrel with the rest for his rights. In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual...than why eating and drinking should be ; and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other. ... I call a certain woman my wife ;... | |
| William Hepworth Dixon - 1868 - 516 pages
...at a thanksgiving dinner to claim each hie ecparato dish, and quarrel with the rest for his rights. In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual intercourse should be V restrained by law, than why eating and drinking should be; and there isas little occasion for shame... | |
| John B. Ellis - 1870 - 540 pages
...his separate dish, and quarrel with the rest for his rights. In a holy community there is nflujnore reason why sexual intercourse should be restrained...than why eating and drinking should be ; and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other. God has placed a wall of partition between... | |
| Charles Franklin Thwing, Carrie Frances Butler Thwing - 1887 - 228 pages
...cessation of marriages will occur only when the will of God is done on earth as it is in heaven. " In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual...than why eating and drinking should be; and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other." That the Oneida Community was thus "... | |
| George Barton Cutten - 1908 - 524 pages
...perfected Polygamy. The gist of the famous Battle Axe Letter is found in the sentence where Noyes said: "In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual...than why eating and drinking should be; and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other." The publication of this document made... | |
| Charles Franklin Thwing, Carrie Frances Butler Thwing - 1915 - 266 pages
...pp. 52-56. of marriages will occur only when the will of God is done on earth as it is in heaven. " In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual...than why eating and drinking should be ; and there is as little occasion for shame in the one case as in the other." That the Oneida Community was thus "... | |
| Emanie N. Sachs - 1928 - 528 pages
...Beyond. Meanwhile the Reverend John Humphrey Noyes of New Haven recovered from religious melancholy. "In a holy community there is no more reason why sexual...restrained by law than why eating and drinking should be," said he. And he founded the Oneida Community which held that the more the human heart loved, the more... | |
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