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Minot Pratt and one or two other skeptics left the Association, but the rest of the members unanimously voted to reorganize as a Fourierite Phalanx.

From My Friends at Brook Farm by Sears, John Van Der Zee

Doherty, Hugh, writer for the Harbinger, 212; Swedenborgian Fourierite, 542.

From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey

The trouble with all the Fourierite communities was that they were fanciful and theoretical schemes, not simple and natural growths.

From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis

Having spent my first Sabbath at Waupun I next visited Ceresco, where a settlement had been made by the Wisconsin Phalanx, a Fourierite Association.

From Thirty Years in the Itinerancy by Miller, Wesson Gage

Its first manifest, acknowledged and labelled fruits were a series of futile “communities”—Noyes’ History of American Socialisms gives their simple history of births and of fatal infantile ailments—Brook Farm, Fourierite “Phalanges” and the like.

From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)