Members of Rapp’s colony at Harmony, Ohio, now almost extinct.
1817. Ignorant as the mass of the Harmonites may be, when we constrast their neatness and order, with the slovenly habits of their neighbours, we see the good arising from mere association.… In the institution of these societies, the Shakers and the Harmonites,—religion, or, if you will, fanaticism, seems to be [a powerful agent].—M. Birkbeck, ‘Journey in America,’ pp. 156, 158 (Phila.).
