who does not drink is free from intemperance, and one who does not swear is free from profanity, so one who does not sin at all is free from sin, or morally perfect.  Their communism is like that of the Icarians, so far as property is concerned, this being owned equally by all for the benefit of all as they severally have need; which state they claim is the state of man after the resurrection.  But they have a community not only of goods, but also of wives; or, rather, they have no wives at all, but all women belong to all men, and all men to all women; which they assert to be the state of Nature, and therefore the most perfect state.  They call it complex marriage instead of simple, and it is both polygamy and polyandry at the same time.  They are enemies of all exclusiveness or selfishness, and hold that there should be no exclusiveness in money or in women or children.  Their idea is to be in the most literal sense no respecters of persons.  All women and children are the same to all men, and vice versa.  A man never knows his own children, and the mothers, instead of raising their children themselves, give them over to a common nursery, somewhat after the suggestion of Plato in his Republic.  If any two persons are suspected of forming special attachments, and so of violating the principle of equal and universal love, or of using their sexual freedom too liberally, they are put under discipline.  They are very religious, their religion, however, consisting only in keeping free from sin.  They have no sermons, ceremonies, sacraments or religious manifestations whatever.  There are no public prayers, and no loud prayers at all.  Their method of discipline is called “criticism,” and consists in bringing the offender into the presence of a committee of men and women, who each pass their criticisms on him and allow him to confess or criticise himself.  The least sign of worldliness or evidence of impropriety is enough to subject one to this ordeal.  They are very careful about whom they admit to their community, as there are numerous rakes and idlers who make application on the supposition that it is a harem or Turkish paradise.  None are admitted who are not imbued with their doctrine of perfection, and who do not show evidences of it in their lives.  In a business point of view, they are comparatively successful, the original members having contributed over one hundred thousand dollars’ worth of property, which has not depreciated.  They engage in farming, wine-raising and various industries, and are known in the general markets for their products.

The Separatists at Zoar, Ohio, about halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburg, are a body of Germans who fled from Wuertemberg in 1817 to escape religious persecution.  They are mystics, followers of Jacob Boehm, Gerhard, Terstegen, Jung Stilling and others of that class, and considerably above the average of communists in intellect and culture.  They were aided to emigrate to this country by some English