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Prophets, Polygamy, and a Presidential Assassin Tom Noyes revisits the Oneida community in The Substance of Things Hoped For by Dan Schank
The Substance of Things Hoped For doesn t lend itself to a tidy summary.
Although a work of fiction, it was inspired by the true story of the Oneida community an abolitionist, free-love religious commune from the 19th century according to Noyes. The founder of this experiment in Christian socialism was John Humphrey Noyes, a central character in the book and a distant relative to its author. Oneida was founded on the principle that if people followed Noyes theological instructions, then heaven could be present on earth. The slice of heaven he spoke of was in Upstate New York, roughly four hours east of Erie.