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There were Owenite communities in the 1820s, Fourier phalanges in the 1840s, spiritualist communes in the 1850s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hard by is the college's Glen Helen, a hilly, 1,000 acre forest tract where a century ago lived a Communistic or Owenite colony.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Owenite invokes the admitted principle, that it is unjust to punish any one for what he cannot help.

From Utilitarianism by Mill, John Stuart

And I wish it ended in talk, but----" "But I believe you're turning Owenite.

From Eric by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

He speculates upon the chances of a new spirit among men, of an all-wise legislator, and of the beneficent example of colonies upon the later Owenite model.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph