Maclure of New Harmony: Scientist, Progressive Educator, Radical Philanthropist

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335 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia , 14–15, 20, 38; defection to New Harmony, 181–182; founding of, 125–130; journal of, 129; Maclure as president, 126, 127, 134, 136; Maclure wills wealth, 147; organizational transformation, 134–136, 280–281; Owen enthusiasts, 151–152, 162, 168–169; Pennsylvania/New Jersey/ New York expedition, 152; splinter groups, 133–134 Adams, Abigail, 44 Adams, John, 16, 18, 36, 96, 169 adult education, 82, 217, 239, 272–273 Aesop’s Fables, 273 African Americans, 105, 174, 198–202 Agassiz, Louis, 87 agriculture, 64–65 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 90, 268 American Conchology (Say), 236, 237, 260, 273 American Enlightenment principles, 13, 19, 27–28, 70 American Entomology (Say), 130, 236, 273 American Geological Society, 68; bequeathed money, 278; foundation, 69; Maclure president of, 122, 245 American Journal of Science, 68, 69, 86 American Philosophical Society, 124–125; Maclure joins, 20; Wistar Party, 125 American Revolution, 9, 35 Amphlett, William, 273 Anna, General Santa, 249 anthracite, 64 Applegath, Joseph, 194 d’Aubigny, Madam, 262, 265 Audubon, John James, 97, 134 August, Karl, 101 Auvergne, France, 44–45 Ayr, Scotland, 3, 148 Aztec artifacts, 239 Barlow, Joel, 33 Barnet, Isaac Cox, 42, 92 Bartram, John, 131, 240 Bartram, William, 131 basalt, 44, 52, 56, 57, 62, 117 Beal, John, 183, 287 Beaver, Pennsylvania, 184 Bennett, William, 253 Bentham, Jeremy, 13, 33, 37, 105, 149–150 Berger, Jean-François, 46 Bernhard, Duke, 53, 167 Berzelius, Jöns Jacob, 41, 101 Birbeck, George, 149 Black, John, 149 Boatload of Knowledge (keelboat), 182–186 Bolivar, Simon, 249 Bonaparte, Joseph, 238 Bonaparte, Lucien, 134 Index 336 · Index Bonaparte, Napoleon, 107, 110; exile on Elba likened to Neef, 98; meets Maclure on way to Elba, 121; not impressed with Pestalozzian education, 86; views on, 118–120 booksellers, 253 Bordeaux, 120–121 Bowring, John, 149 British labor movement, 227 Brown, Paul: advocate total communal ownership, 213–214; counters Owen’s farewell speech, 225; demands funds for commune, 206; departs New Harmony , 230; on Mr. Owen, 221 Buckland, William, 58 Burke, Edmund, 11, 250 Burns, Robert, 3 Burrough, Marmaduke, 277, 288 Byron, George, 14 Cabell, Joseph C., 44 Calvinist Church of Scotland, 5 Caribbean islands, 121 Carroll, Miss, 251–252, 254 Catastrophists, 58 Catholic Church, 216, 295–296; in France, 46–48; in Ireland, 12; in Italy, 111, 112; in Mexico, 238; in Spain, 48, 137, 216 Chase, Mrs., 244 Chase, Samuel, 183, 244 Chateaubriand, François-René: 18 child labor, 158, 159 chondrodite, 151 Chonetes maclurea, 277 Cleaveland, Parker, 69 Code Nápoléon (Maclure), 273 Coix del Carmen, 144, 146 Common Sense (Paine), 19 Comte, Auguste, 94 “Conditions of Bequest from William Maclure ,” 286 Contributions of the Maclurean Lyceum to the Arts and Sciences, 134 Cooper, James Fenimore, 184 Cooper, Thomas, 11 Corresponding Society of London, 33 Council of Education in Berne, 77 Couture, Madam, 262 cranial volume, 71 Cuvier, Georges, 58 Czar Alexander of Russia, 78 deforestation, 65 deists, 56 Dickens, Charles, 90 Disseminator of Useful Knowledge (Maclure), 236; articles edited by Say and Fretageot , 245, 249; articles from Maclure pile up, 253–254; comes to an end, 246; contributors and content, 232– 233, 234; Wright article, 201–202 Dorsey, Mr., 226 Douglas, Mr., 4 Duane, William, 97 Eaton, Amos, 66 Economy, Pennsylvania, 165, 170, 171–172, 183 The Edinburgh Review, 67 education: for girls and boys, 81, 83; reformation by, 26–27, 30; useful knowledge, 4, 79, 83, 145, 232; useful knowledge defined, 84 Education Society, 212, 218, 222, 226 Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology (Cleaveland), 69 elephant and rhinoceros fossils in Tuscany, 108 Ellis, Thomas H., 289 Enlightenment principles, 228; American, 13, 19, 27–28, 70; French, 123, 153; Scottish, 25 Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (Godwin ), 33 equality, 151, 155; education for girls and boys, 81, 83; race, 201 Erving, George William, 47, 120, 121; dismissed , 281; invests in Spanish bonds, 141; Maclure’s trustee, 147 “Essay on the Formation of Rocks,” 122 Europe, 140 Eusebio (Montengon), 141 evolution, 70–71 Farragut, David G., 89 fashion, 117, 193 Index · 337 Fauna Americana (Harlan), 132–133 Federalists, 16, 27, 36–37, 120 Feiba-Peveli, 208, 210, 224 von Fellenberg, Philipp Emmanuel, 72, 77, 79 Ferdinand VII, 138, 141, 146, 260 Ferrall, Simon, 227–228 Finland, 102–103 Fisher, Mrs., 186 Fish of North America (Lesueur), 236 Florida, strategic importance, 131 Florida/Georgia expedition by ANSP, 130–132 Flower, Richard, 150, 164, 171 fossils: brachiopod...