Utopian Studies, March 22nd, 1997
Jonathan Edwards might have significantly influenced the development of Edward Bellamy's philosophic thought, most clearly expressed in Bellamy's essay "The Religion of Solidarity." Both felt community was the highest aspect of moral behavior, an entity invented by altruistic egoism that united individualism and social unity. Their versions of individual identity enhanced the ideal community.
Fate, which foresaw
How frivolous a baby man would be,
. . . That it might keep from his capricious play
His genuine self, and force him to obey
Even in his own despite, his being's law,
Bade, throu...
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