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- noun Plural form of
Fourierite .
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Examples
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The socialists were at first called Fourierites but this rather long title very soon gave place to the more convenient word here used.
My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears
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The principal ground of attack was that the "Fourierites" were "disorganizers," that they were unsettling the foundations of society and that they wished to make their Associations entering wedges to disrupt the marriage relation and produce promiscuity and general anarchy.
Brook Farm John Thomas Codman
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Of late years we have heard much of Socialists, Communists, Fourierites, and so forth; but the word
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Mormons in polygamy, the Fourierites in community, but to exceed both in honesty!
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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Nor again, was there an initiator of a new life, beginning with artificial means to create the first nucleus of an association proposing to make man over, as was the case with Beller, Owen, Cabet, and the enterprise of the Fourierites in Texas, which was the tomb of utopianism, marked by a singular epitaph: the dumbness which succeeded the fiery eloquence of Considerant.
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John Collins started a number of vague branches of what the Fourierites called the "no-God, no-government, no-marriage, no-money, no-meat, no - salt, no-pepper" system of community.
Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates Helen Kendrick Johnson 1880
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In the United States, sixteen phalansteries of Fourierites, founded between 1840 and 1846, had all collapsed in 1855.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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Fourierites, and other impostors notorious for their crimes.
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But I like no Fourierites; they are terribly wearisome here in Europe; the tide of things does not wash through them as violently as with us, and they have time to run in the tread-mill of system.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
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At the present day, when the community-principle is attracting so much attention, it would seem to be seriously worth while for the Fourierites to observe both the social economy and the modes of architecture of these African ants.
Journal of an African Cruiser Horatio Bridge 1849
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