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"ref": "1794 September 20, Robert Southey, chapter III, in Charles Cuthbert Southey, editor, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey. Edited by His Son, … In Six Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 221",
"text": "We preached Pantisocracy and Aspheterism everywhere. These, Tom, are two new words, the first signifying the equal government of all, and the other the generalisation of individual property; words well understood in the city of Bristol.\nThe date of the letter is from Robert Southey ([1849?]) chapter III, in Charles Cuthbert Southey, editor, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 75.",
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"text": "A more free-wheeling verbal invention of [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge's, \"Aspheterism,\" meant the absence of private property. \"Aspheterism\" would vanquish materialism and help raise a generation of children untainted by corrupt values.",
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"ref": "2016, Björn Bosserhoff, “Almost Susquehanna”, in Radical Contra-Diction: Coleridge, Revolution, Apostasy, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, part 1 (Catching Fire: A Politico-biographical Account, 1792–96), page 64",
"text": "\"Aspheterism,\" then, the belief that only an abolition of private property would bring about the desired moral transformation, lies at the very heart of Pantisocracy. [Robert] Southey and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge believed that once people returned to sharing a \"common ground,\" they would no longer feel envy or a need to compete. […] But \"aspheterism\" was not the only milestone on their path to universal philanthropy; it was accompanied by ideas about improving everyday interpersonal behaviour.",
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"text": "A more free-wheeling verbal invention of [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge's, \"Aspheterism,\" meant the absence of private property. \"Aspheterism\" would vanquish materialism and help raise a generation of children untainted by corrupt values.",
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