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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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m to have been used as a sort of amulet ortalisman. Brook Farm, a community organized in 1841 near West Roxbury, Mass. Under theleadership of George Ripley and his wife anassociation was formed with a few stockholders,and a farm of 200 acres was purchased. Amongthe members of this association were NathanielHawthorne, Charles A. Dana, John S. Dwight,and George P. Bradford; other prominent peo-ple connected with Brook Farm were Ralph W.Emerson, Amos B. Alcott, Theodore Parker,George W. Curtis, and Margaret Fuller. Theideal of the association was to promote the re-organization of society in accordance with theprinciples of co-operation. The life of the com-munity was very simple; every one had someshare_ of the work to do, the rate of pay beingpractically the same for all kinds of work ; andall had a share in the educational advantagesand the social enjoyments. There were a num-ber of industrial employments besides the till-ing of the farm, and the surplus product was MODERN BRONZE WORK.
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BROOKE solQ to outsiders. The school was also an im-portant feature, furnishing instruction in allgrades, inchiding college subjects; pupils out-side the coninnmity were received on the pay-ment of a small fee. In 1843 the association,coming under the influence of Albert Brisbane,adopted the organization of the phalanx accord-ing to the plan of Fourier, and established thethree primary departments* of agriculture, do-mestic industry, and mechanic arts; it becamealso a centre of the Fourierist propaganda.After this change the prosperity of Brook Farmdeclined rapidly; on 3 )\Iarch 1846 the newbuilding, the Phalanstery, was burned, and theassociation finally dissolved in October 1847. Bibliography.— Codman, Brook Farm, His-toric and Personal Memoirs* ; Frothingham,•Life of George Ripley ; Nojes, • History ofAmerican Socialisms : Swift, Lindsay, * BrookFarm, Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors.* Brooke, Francis Key, American ProtestantEpiscopal liishop : i). Ciambier. Ohio, 2 Nov. 1

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