The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

286 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST clippings from German, English, and French newspapers dealing with astronomy, linguistics, science, po ...

FAREWELL TO REFORM 287 sponsibility. In his own account of his troubles Weitling related that his chief, a "general agent" named ...

288 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST labor movement took on new life among the Germans in New York in the 1860's; there were German labor p ...

FAREWELL TO REFORM 289 On February 27, 1861, the New York Tribune reported that because of an "act of royal grace" by His Majest ...

290 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST leader refused to permit the use of his name, even by such a group of friends and fellow propagandists ...

CHAPTER XV NEW FRONTIERS T HE quest for a universal language has not been a specialty- limited to experts on linguistics and pho ...

292 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST a universal language was available.^1 In America the editors of the controversial Woodhull and Claflin ...

NEW FRONTIERS 293 any one individual and that he needed the help of the specialists. Perhaps this discouraging discovery explain ...

294 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST analysis and comprehension. Yet the author was sure that his fan­ tastic creation would have value far ...

NEW FRONTIERS 295 the form and spelling of the word whether the object to which it referred was a plant, a mineral, a tool, a ma ...

296 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST this "capacity for conception," which Weitling defined as essen­ tially a matter of chemistry, there c ...

NEW FRONTIERS 207 Weitling ended this flight into linguistics and phonetics with additional speculations on the nature of the un ...

298 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST With this observation, we may leave the discussion of Weitling's curious interest in a universal langu ...

NEW FRONTIERS 299 and astronomy, and that fact disturbed him. It may also be true that he sought "escape from this disgraceful e ...

300 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST mystery." To add a further touch of the dramatic, he made a notation in his notebook that the world-sh ...

NEW FRONTIERS 301 manuscript. The fragment was entitled "The moving element (Urstoff) in its cosmo-electro-magnetic effects—a pi ...

332 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST had been referred. The former had completely rejected his major contention that phenomena heretofore e ...

NEW FRONTIERS 303 of financial resources, Weitling nevertheless derived extreme pleasure from his astronomical labors. Near the ...

304 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST cessory and other improvements for sewing machines dated from the day when he was working by the side ...

NEW FRONTIERS 305 Weitling went to work at once on the assignment which his wife had given him and in a few weeks he had complet ...