Herder and the Harmony Society

NotesHerders Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Bernhard Suphan, xviii, 210.A. Williams, The Harmony Society, Pittsburgh, 1866. J. A. Bole, “The Harmony Society,” German-American Annuals, May–November, 1904.K. J. Arndt, “The Life and Mission of Count Leon,” American-German Review, June and August, 1940. K. J. Arndt, “The Mysterious Past of Lousiana’s Mystic, Count Leon,” Louisiana Historical Quarterly, April, 1941.The first drilling in America began August 185 g, on Oil Creek, at Titusville, Pa. Encyclopaedia Britannica (14 ed.), xvii, 663. A few months later the Harmony Society drilled three wells on its land nearby. “The deep, large-flowing wells of Oil Creek had not then been discovered, and therefore ours attracted great attention.” From page 10 of a statement by the Trustees of the Harmony Society made at Economy, April 29, 1867.The library, now stored in the Great House at Economy, Pa., contains many rare and interesting volumes. I have been putting this library in order and am now preparing a catalogue of it.Through the courtesy of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission I have for the last two summers been allowed to work in the Archives at Economy, which are closed to the public. A WPA group is at work at Economy ordering and filing papers of the Society. There are about 150,000 papers dealing with Harmony Society business and 20,000 letters of various kinds.Cf. Rauscher, “Des Separatisten G. Rapp Leben und Treiben,” Theologische Studien aus Württemberg, vi, 1885. Cf. also Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, s.v. Rapp.Herder, Idem zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (Carlsruhe, 1790), iii, 373.Ibid., iv, 67.Herders Sämtliche Werke, hrsg. Suphan, xvii, 326.Ibid., xvii, 121.Ibid., xvii, 391

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