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1 P. 125.
2 Goodell's Slavery and Anti-Slavery, p. 387.
3 R. W. Emerson refers this ‘era of activity,’ this schism between ‘the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement,’ to 1820 and the twenty years following. ‘It seemed a war between intellect and affection: a crack in nature which split every church in Christendom into Papal and Protestant, Calvinism into Old and New schools, Quakerism into Old and New; brought new divisions in politics, as the new conscience touched temperance and slavery. The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself. Men grew reflective and intellectual. There was a new consciousness’ (Atlantic Monthly, October, 1883, p. 529; and see the whole of this acute observer's ‘Lecture on the Times,’ Dec. 2, 1841). There was a corresponding activity in England, manifested in the Reform Bill of 1832, the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies, the Tractarian movement, Catholic Emancipation, and a hundred other ways.
4 Noyes's American Socialisms, p. 614.
5 Ibid., p. 615.
6 March 30, by Noyes's own account in the American Socialist, June 12, 1879; but pretty certainly either March 20 or an earlier date. See the date of the letter presently to be quoted, which was received early in April (Lib. 7.123).
7 Am. Socialist, June 12, 1879.
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