History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1818 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Oneida and Perfectionism
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The idea
John Humphrey Noyes, educated at Dartmouth, Andover and Yale, took from the revival the doctrine of perfectionism, that a person can be perfect and free of sin.
In practice
Noyes claiming in eighteen thirty-four to have achieved that state himself.
Where people slip
He then applied perfectionism to relations between men and women, which is where the notoriety came from.
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