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Oneida Community

noun

  1. a society of religious perfectionists established by John Humphrey Noyes, in 1848 at Oneida, N.Y., on the theory that sin can be eliminated through social reform: dissolved and reorganized in 1881 as a joint-stock company.


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Another of these social experiments was the Oneida Community and its several ephemeral branches.

John Noyes, of the Oneida Community, where equal rights were observed, preached the same doctrines.

It is not probable that the Oneida Community presented in detail the model to which human society generally will conform.

He preached his new faith and finally established the Oneida Community for its demonstration, with about three hundred members.

For twenty years past he has been a faithful disciple and patron of the Oneida Community.

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