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8116	Nordhoff, Charles	The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation			.txt	text/plain	133849	6806	72	The society has at this time 1450 members; owns about 25,000 acres of community, they receive new members with great care, and only after members of communistic societies take life easy. It is a curious fact that among the hired people of the society, living land, if we had not formed a community," the older people told me; and, Most of the members now are middle-aged people, and the society is The Shakers are a celibate order, composed of men and women living world, the members of the Church Order aim to live apart; and they do The Shaker family, or commune, usually consists of from thirty to eighty As to new members, Elder Frederick said the societies had not in recent farmers, who had worked for them as hired people for a number of years. the Shakers to find more women than men in a society or family, but at	./cache/8116.txt	./txt/8116.txt