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I am consultant, and I'm gonna be doing a brief
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summer on new harmony.
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So the founder of New Harmony, George Rapp, was seeking
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religious freedom, and he came over from Pennsylvania with his
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colony and found a new harmony.
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They lived there for about 10 years, but with the
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hub of divine guidance wrapped came to the decision to
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move the colony back to Pennsylvania and sell the land.
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Oh, he sold new harmony to induct to an industrialist
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named Robert Owens.
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With no one living on his land.
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He thought it would be best toe lure scientists to
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live there in a utopian society.
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He had learned a whole community of the brightest scientists
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in the US to new harmony.
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Oh, there he made his attempted editor Utopian society.
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The people lived in peace for a few years, but
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ultimately it fell apart due to conflicts.
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And around 18 27 the conflicts included agriculture and labor.
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The reason being most of the scientists where the were
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from the upper class, so they weren't used to do
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in riel manual hard work.
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Thanks for listening.