Of the earliest additions to the co-operative household, a sprinkling were already Catholic; others, including the wife and the niece of the founder, afterwards became so.

Some attended orthodox Protestant churches; the majority were probably Unitarians.

Discussion on all subjects appears to have been free, frank, and good-tempered.
There was no attempt made at any communism except that of intellectual and social gifts and privileges.

There was a common table, and Mrs.Kirby has given us some attractive glimpses of the good feeling, and kindly gayety, and practical observance of the precept to "bear one another's burdens" which came into play around it.

For many months, as no one could endure to have his equal serve him, and all were equals, there was a constant getting up and down at table so that each might help himself.