Le vrai Christianisme suivant Jesus-Christ.

CABET, Etienne (1788-1856)

Edité par Paris, au bureau du Populaire . avril 1846

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. 12mo. [II],XII,3-636p., thus complete. Contemp. half purple calf, back romanticly gilt decorated, marbled endpapers and edges. First edition. The second major book of Etienne Cabet, the author of the famous utopian novel Voyage en Icarie of 1839. In the 1840's Cabet tried to convert his fellow communists, those who favoured revolutionary violence to gain political power and those who based themselves on purely materialistic principles like his former secretary Dezamy, to his peaceful Icarian communism. In the present volume, reprinted twice before 1850, Cabet explains that his communist society is based upon Christian principles. His 'true Christianism' is deistic and rational, and his God is the god of equality and justice to the poor and oppressed. It yielded him considerable support among the workers and in January 1848 a first group of 69 colonists left France to establish an Icarian settlement in America. *Prudhommeaux A86 (dated August 1846!). Goldsmiths' 34899. Not in Kress or Einaudi. Maitron I,p.333ff.

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• Titre: Le vrai Christianisme suivant Jesus-Christ.
• Éditeur: Paris, au bureau du Populaire . avril 1846
• Reliure: Couverture rigide