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HISTORY OF
THE ZOAR SOCIETY FROM
COMMENCEMENT TO
ITS
ITS
CONCLUSION
A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY COMMUNISM By E.
O.
RANDALL
SECOND EDITION
COLUMBUS, OHIO PRESS OF FRED. J. HEER igoo
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^Entered accordingf to Act of Congress in the year 1899
BY
E. O.
RANDALL
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington
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THE ZOAR SOaETY ZOAR, OHIO
September tt, 1899. E. 0.
RANDALL,
Sec'y,
Cotumbus, Ohio.
Dear
Sir
:
I hiuve carefully read your history
of Zoar, and find
it
the_ fullest
and most accurate
yet published and entirety 'worthy of credence. treatment of the subject
fair
is
and
Your
impartial.
Yours 'aery truly, L.
ZIMMEBMAN, Sec'y
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NOTE BY THE AUTHOR monograph herewith published THE"The Zoar,"
in
Separatist Society of
book form,
is
reprinted,
by permission, from the publications of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.
It
appeared in
the Quarterly for July, 1899, Volume VIII, No. 1. While the "Zoarites" have attracted much attention
not only in the United States but even in Europe, especially among the students of history and Sociology, yet so far as
known
to the writer,
no extended account
of the Society has heretofore been published.
The
purpose of the present writer will be accomplished this contribution to the literature of
munism proves
to
if
American Com-
be of any value to the student or
general reader.
E. O. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. ii, iSpp.
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OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS.
THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF AN EXPERIMENT
IN COMMUNISM
— FROM
ITS
ZOAR. COMMENCEMENT
TO ITS CONCIvUSION. BY
E. O. RANDAI,!,, I