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CONSHOHOCKEN , a See also:

BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

borough of See also:

Montgomery See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county, See also:

Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the Schuylkill See also:

RIVER

river, 12 M. N.W. of See also:

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia. Pop. (1890) 5470; (1900) 5762 (932 being See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born); (1910) 7480. It is served by the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia & See also:

READING

Reading See also:

RAILWAYS

railways. The borough is built on See also:

LAND

land which rises gradually from the river-See also:

BANK

bank for about m. and then becomes quite level, but the surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country is for the most See also:

PART

part occupied by hills, several of which rise to considerable height. It has a variety of manufacturing establishments, among which are See also:

cotton and woollen See also:

mills, See also:

ROLLING

rolling mills, See also:

STEEL, FLORA ANNIE (1847– )

steel mills, foundries, See also:

BOILER

boiler shops, See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube See also:

WORKS

works, and works for making surgical See also:

INSTRUMENTS

instruments and .artificial See also:

stone. The See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place was first settled about 1820, and was.for several years known as Matson's See also:

Ford; in 1830 it was laid out as a See also:

TOWN

town and received its See also:

PRESENT

present name, an See also:

INDIAN

Indian word meaning " pleasant valley." It was incorporated in r85o. Immediately across the Schuylkill is See also:

West Conshohocken (pop. in 1900, 1958), where carpets and woollen goods are manufactured. CONSID$RANT, See also:

VICTOR PROSPER (1808-1893), See also:

French socialist, was born at See also:

SALINS

Salins (See also:

Jura) on the 12th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1808. Educated at the Ecole Polytechnique in See also:

Paris, he entered the French See also:

army as an engineer, rising to the See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain. Becoming imbued, however, with the phalansterian ideas of See also:

FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois See also:

Fourier, he resigned his See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission in 1831, in See also:

order to devote himself to advancing the doctrines of his See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

On the See also:

DEATH

death of Fourier in 1837 he became the acknowledged See also:

head of the See also:

MOVEMENT

movement, and took See also:

charge of La Phalange, the See also:

ORGAN

organ of Fourierism. He also established phalanges at See also:

Conde-sur-Vesgres and elsewhere, but they had little success and soon died of inanition. During this See also:

period he published his Destine sociale (1834-1838), undoubtedly the most able and most important See also:

WORK

work of the Fourierist school. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected to the Constituent See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly for the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Loiret, and in 1849 to the Legislative Assembly for the department of the See also:

Seine. Considerant's See also:

SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the " demonstration " under the leadership of Ledru-See also:

ROLLIN, CHARLES (1661-1741)

Rollin on the 13th of See also:

JUNE

June 1849 caused his compulsory See also:

FLIGHT

flight to See also:

Belgium. Thence he went (1852) to See also:

TEXAS

Texas, but soon returned to See also:

BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, where he suffered a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short imprisonment for alleged See also:

CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy against the See also:

peace of a neighbouring See also:

state. On his See also:

RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release he again set out for Texas, and founded at See also:

SAN

San See also:

Antonio the communistic See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony of La See also:

REUNION

Reunion. This experiment met with little more success than his 'former attempts, and in 1869 he returned to Paris, where he lived in retirement, needy and forgotten, till his death in 1893. The most important of Considerant's other writings were Exposition du systeme de Fourier (1845), Principes du socialisme (1847), Theorie du See also:

DROIT (Fr. for " right," from Lat. directus, straight)

droit de See also:

PRO

pro priete et du droit au travail (1848).

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