Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments

270 pp. Includes discussion of women's suffrage, currency and banking, sex education, labor reform, sovereignty, and marriage. The author, son of Nathaniel Greene of Boston, was appointed to the U.S. military academy from Massachusetts in 1835, but left before graduation... was connected with the Brook Farm movement, after which he studied theology, and was graduated at the Harvard divinity-school in 1845. He then became a Unitarian clergyman, and for several years was settled in Brookfield, Mass. Later he went to Europe, but returned in 1861. Although a Democrat, he was a strong abolitionist, and at the beginning of the civil war became colonel of the 14th Massachusetts infantry, afterward the 1st Massachusetts heavy artillery. In 1862, while stationed with his regiment in Fairfax, Va., he was recalled and assigned by Gen. McClellan to the command of an artillery brigade in Gen. Whipple's division. He resigned his commission in October, 1862, and returned to Boston. Mr. Greene was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1853, was active in all reform movements, and was specially zealous for perfect freedom of speech. He was a fine mathematician, and was versed in Hebrew literature and in Hebrew and Egyptian antiquities. He published numerous pamphlets, including "Sovereignty of the People" (Boston, 1863); "Explanations of the Theory of the Calculus" (1870); "Transcendentalism" (1870); and "The Facts of Consciousness and the Philosophy of Mr. Herbert Spencer" (1871); and in book-form, "Remarks on the Science of History, followed by an a priori Autobiography" (1849); "Theory of the Calculus" (1870); and "Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments" (1875). (Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography)