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- ↑ Greenwalt 1955, p. 20; Widdicombe, Morris & Kross 2017, pp. 36, 448.
- ↑ O'Connor 2000, p. 96.
- ↑ O'Connor 2000, pp. 126–127.
- ↑ Hine 1983, p. 190.
- ↑ O'Connor 2000, p. 131.
- ↑ Hine 1983, p. 107.
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- O'Connor, Peter Shaun (2000). On the Road to Utopia: The Social History and Spirituality of Altruria, and Intentional Religious Community in Sonoma County, California, 1894–1896 (PhD thesis). Graduate Theological Union.
- Widdicombe, Toby; Morris, James M.; Kross, Andrea L. (2017). Historical Dictionary of Utopianism (2nd ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-0217-6.