CHAPTER XIX.
THE PERSONNEL OF FOURIERISM.[ToC]
Albert Brisbane of course was the central man of the brilliant group that imported and popularized Fourierism. But the reader will be interested to see a full tableau of the persons who were prominent in this movement. We will bring them to view by presenting, first, a list of the contributors to the Phalanx and Harbinger, and secondly, a condensed report of one of the National Conventions of the Fourierists.
The indexes of the Phalanx and Harbinger (eight volumes in all), have at their heads the names of the principal contributors; and their initials, in connection with the articles in the indexes, enable us to give the number of articles written by each contributor. Thus the reader will see at a glance, not only the leading men of the movement, but proximately the proportion of influence, or at least of literature, that each contributed. Several of the names on this list are now of world-wide fame, and many of them have attained eminence as historians, essayists, poets, journalists or artists. A few of them have reached the van in politics, and gained public station.
WRITERS FOR THE PHALANX AND HARBINGER.
| Names. | No. of articles. |
| John Allen, | 2 |
| Stephen Pearl Andrews, | 1 |
| Albert Brisbane, | 56 |
| Geo. H. Calvert, | 1 |
| Wm. E. Channing, | 1 |
| Wm. F. Channing, | 1 |
| Wm. H. Channing, | 39 |
| Otis Clapp, | 1 |
| J. Freeman Clarke, | 1 |
| Joseph J. Cooke, | 10 |
| Christopher P. Cranch, | 9 |
| George W. Curtis, | 10 |
| Charles A. Dana, | 248 |
| Hugh Doherty, | 11 |
| A.J.H. Duganne, | 3 |
| John S. Dwight, | 324 |
| George G. Foster, | 7 |
| Edward Giles, | 3 |
| Parke Godwin, | 152 |
| E.P. Grant, | 4 |
| Horace Greeley, | 2 |
| Frederic H. Hedge, | 1 |
| T.W. Higginson, | 10 |
| E. Ives, Jr., | 3 |
| Henry James, | 32 |
| Wm. H. Kimball, | 1 |
| Marx E. Lazarus, | 52 |
| James Russell Lowell, | 2 |
| Osborne Macdaniel, | 47 |
| Wm. H. Müller, | 2 |
| C. Neidhardt, | 1 |
| D.S. Oliphant, | 1 |
| John Orvis, | 23 |
| Jean M. Palisse, | 16 |
| E.W. Parkman, | 1 |
| Mary Spencer Pease, | 1 |
| J.H. Pulte, | 1 |
| George Ripley, | 315 |
| Samuel D. Robbins, | 1 |
| Lewis W. Ryckman, | 5 |
| J.A. Saxton, | 1 |
| James Sellers, | 3 |
| Francis G. Shaw, | 131 |
| Miss E.A. Starr, | 5 |
| W.W. Story, | 14 |
| Edmund Tweedy, | 7 |
| John G. Whittier, | 1 |
| J.J. Garth Wilkinson, | 12 |
Most of these writers were in the prime of youth, and Socialism was their first love. It would be interesting to trace their several careers in after time, when acquaintance with "stern reality" put another face on their early dream, and turned them aside to other pursuits. Certain it is, that the socialistic revival, barren as it was in direct fruit, fertilized in many ways the genius of these men, and through them the intellect of the nation.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Report from The Phalanx condensed.
Pursuant to a call published in the Phalanx and other papers, a Convention of Associationists assembled on Thursday morning, the 4th of April, 1844, at Clinton Hall, in the city of New York.