came to consume more and more of his time. He contributed articles to the Fourierist journal The Harbinger (previously The Phalanx), also writing ten books in 1851-1852, where he espoused, in the words of scholar Emily Bingham, "a combination of Fourier's communalism, Emanuel Swedenborg's mysticism, and American transcendentalism." Among those books was Love vs. Marriage (1852), where he argued that marriage as an institution was akin to "legalized prostitution," oppressing women and men by allowing loveless marriages contracted for economic or utilitarian reasons to take precedence over true love. For those paying attention, Lazarus's book was subjected to severe criticism. A review by Henry James, Sr., whom Lazarus had cited in the book and himself a promoter of Swedenborg's theology, touched off a heated debate in the pages of the New York Tribune. Mental struggles, Civil War, and later life Through his adult life, Lazarus tried to cope with apparent mental and physical disturbances, in particular what seemed to be chronic nocturnal emissions, a condition that at the time was labeled "seminal incontinence" or "spermatorrhea," believed to be detrimental and even fatal to the mind and body. Lazarus sought treatments through homeopathy, hyropathy, and electromagnetic treatments that seemed to bring some temporary relief. He also discussed the condition in his 1852 book Involuntary Seminal Losses: Their Causes, Effects, and Cure," where he suggested that the total sexual abstinence that he had tried to practice might be one of those causes. In 1855, Lazarus shocked some of his fellow Fourierists and free love advocates by getting married, to a 19 year old woman from Indiana, Mary Laurie (or "Lawrie). By the mid-1850s, social movements like Fourierism were in decline, and Lazarus's later life seems to have had less focus. When the Civil War broke out, most members of Lazarus's extended family lived in Southern states and generally supported the Confederate cause. In 1861, Lazarus, was staying with relatives in Columbus, Georgia and joined the local City Light Guard when war broke out, later serving as company physician for the Wilmington, NC Artillery. However, he returned to private practice during the war, first in Richmond, Virginia and later in Asheville, North Carolina, where another sister, Julia, lived. After the war, Lazarus continued to practice his areas of medicine and contributed articles and comments to various publications. By his last years, though, he had become a disenchanted recluse known as the "Sand Mountain