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The following remarks by Mr Everett, suggest an idea of Shakerism, which has never before occurred to us.

 :, The most interesting form under which the institution of Shakers presents itself is that of a new species of monarch ism. To enoin celibacy on about two hundred and fifty men and as many women without any assistance from the laws of the land,is, to say the least, bold experiment in anthropology. Considering that they have no legal power in their hands, and that society does not second their dIsci- pline, nothing short of purity in those who administer it would prevent its rapid de- generacy and extinction. When we look into the history of monastic institutions we find them originating in as voluntary and self-devoted spirit as that which enlisted the first converts to shakerism but we find those institutions kept up by means which our Shakers can never commando Separate houses were erected for monks and nuns; but the genius of Shakerlsm requires that brothers and sisters in the faith be gathered together in the same fa- miles. Large bequests were made to those religious houses, and the whole power of government, ecclesiastical and civil, was exerted to enforce on those once devoted, the observance of the monastic VOW; and to be built up alive into stone wall, was the mildest punishment for violating it, The genius of our government IS opposed to all this and certainly of all countrles' ours is the last where monastic institutions could be expected to revive.

 It may be asked what holds the families together, in defiance of the law of nature, and unaided by the law of the land. To this partial answer is obvious. Religious enthusiasm was certainly the first princi . ple of the growth of the Shakers. Acci- dent probably gave the establishment an agricultural form, in this country.

 Some substantial farmer became con vert. and threw his acres into common stock. Indigent brethren came and settled with him and thus the nucleus ota socIc- ty was formed. This community doubt less found recruits among the friendless and deserted Many insulated beings exist ev- en in this happy land surrounded by pros porous families, but amalgamated with none and lonely in the crowd. Single females, without protectors; orphan children with out relatives ; pilgrims in the world struck with melancholy on the way widows; 1; and fathers who have lost their children 1; all those who in one way or the other, seem Y. left cut of the game or the battle of life, furnish recruits for the Shakers. Can it be wondered al, that such persons arc willing to entsrsa community which elevales them to competence and comfort, gives them a li,:le consequence in the eyes of their tel- lows, and puts their rights, feelings, and happiness under the protection ot a hume rous society?

 We can forgive some religious absurdl- ties in people who thus stand ready to O. pen their gates to the friendless and un- protected In short there is no problem