Excerpt from American Communities: Brief Sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana, Icaria, the Shakers, the Brotherhood of the New Life The territory covered by these United States is as large as Europe, as diverse in climate as England and Spain, as France and Russia, and you have to see whether, with the diversity of interests, mercantile and other, which arises under these circumstances, national ties will be stronger than the tendency to separation; and as you grow more people and the pressure of population makes itself manifest, the specter of pauperism will Stalk among you, and you will be oef/'g/ un like Europe if Conununism and Socialism do not claim to be heard. I-cannot imagine that any one Should envy you this great destiny - for a great destiny it is to solve these problems some way or other. Great will be your honor, great will be your position, if you solve them righteously and honestly great your shame and your misery if you fail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.