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of the nineteenth century,
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who was at the Yale Divinity school,
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and he read the pieces we've just talked about,
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and thought about disease as a punishment for sin,
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and decided well there was a remedy.
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And, so, in all modesty he and a group of his friends
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decided that they were going to renounce sin all together,
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and they called themselves The Perfectionists.
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And they founded an ideal community,
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first in Putney, Vermont,
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and then in Oneida in New York State-
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it's part of the history of American Utopian Communities