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 Communistic Arguments 437 of which the most important were The Man (1834-35), The National Labourer (1836-7), Thomas Brothers's The Radical Reformer (1836), and Ely Moore's The National Trades-Union (1836-37)- The labour movement was succeeded in the forties by a wave of Fourierism and Associationism. The chief advocate of this was Albert Brisbane, with his Social Destiny of Man (1840), Association (1843), various translations of Fourier, and The Phalanx; or Journal of Social Science (1843-5). He was fol- lowed by Parke Godwin in his Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier (1844) ^^^ by Horace Greeley in Association Discussed ( 1 847) . Greeley, who for a time opened the influential columns of the Tribune to this movement, showed his interest in the general subject by writing an introduction to Atkinson's Principles of Political Economy (1843). He soon bec9,me more interested in the problems of protection and free land, editing, in 1843, The American Laborer and publishing toward the end of his career the Essays Designed to Elucidate the Science of Political Economy (1869), devoted to the same topics. The interest in the Communist movement was carried on in The Harbinger (1845-47), of the Brook Farm phalanx; J. M. Horner's The Herald of the New-Found World (1841-42); The Communitist (1844); and J. A. CoUins's The Social Pioneer ( 1 844) . The general theories of the labour movement are reflect- ed in Robert McFarlane's Mechanics' Mirror (1846). This period is also marked by the advent of three original thinkers who emphasized individualism to the very extreme of anar- chism: Josiah Warren in Equitable Commerce (1846) and True Civilization (1846) ; Stephen Pearl Andrews in The True Con- stitution of Government in the Sovereignty of the Individual (1851) and Cost the Limit of Price (1851); and Lysander Spooner in Poverty: Its Alleged Causes and Legal Cure (1846). Less im- portant were J. Pickering's The Workingman's Political Econ- omy (1847), J. Campbell's A Theory of Equality (1848), and E. Kellogg' s Labor and Other Capital (1849). The next decade, with its period of prosperity, is marked by only two noteworthy books: Adin Ballou's Practical Christian Socialism (1854) ^^^ H. Hughes's Treatise on Sociology (1854). "With the end of the Civil War the falling prices brought a renewed interest in the labour question. The two national peri-