PRACTICAL APPLICATION. BY THE Γ. KAUFMANN, Μ.Α. Nature, its Dangers, and its Remedies ;” cial Improvement. from Sir Thomas More to Mara." &c., &c. 15 OF THE OUMITTEE OF GEFEEAL APPOINTED BY THE BOCIETY KIPTAS ESWLEDGE ne its, 3, to .imarious simple greater In short, trial pur e common ion to point ce agree, and formed differ As of the writers adage, experientia 04.27-39 GEL 4-24-39 CONTENTS. III. Pre-Reformation Socialisms IV. The Hussites and the Peasants' War VI. The Christian Republic at Paraguay VII. Communistic Societies in America, I. VIII. Communistic Societies in America, II SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM. CHAPTER I. COMMUNISM OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. N the present work we propose to examine made from time to time by social reformers, to realise in actual life their theories of social improvement. We shall pass in review the various Communistic attempts to introduce more simple forms of life, and to bring about a greater equality of fortune and happiness,—in short, "fraternal union among men for industrial purposes, a working in common for the common good." In doing so we shall have occasion to point out how far the theory and practice agree, and to what extent the societies so formed differ from and fall short of the ideals of the writers of Utopias. Remembering the ancient adage, experientia |