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BROOK FARM
HISTORIC AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS
BY
JOHN THOMAS CODMAN
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BROOK FARM MOVEMENT
Transcendentalism; Explained by Mr. Ripley,The Proposition,Members
of the Transcendental ClubThe first Persons at the
CommunityConstitution and Laws; Articles of AgreementDescription of
Mr. Ripley, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Dwight, Mrs. Ripley, Mr. Dana, Mr. Bradford,
Hawthorne and Others.
CHAPTER II.
THE SECOND DEVELOPMENT
Thoughts on ReorganizationFourier on Social CodeMr. Ripley's
ActionProgress of SocietyTheories by Fourier, etc.Closing of the
Transcendental PeriodReorganization, and the Industrial Period.
CHAPTER III.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND DESCRIPTIONS
Departure from Boston, and Arrival at the FarmDescription of the
PlaceAtticaPersonal Occupations, etc.The Wild Flowers.
CHAPTER IV.
THE INDUSTRIAL PERIOD
Descriptions of Members: The "General,"; Ryckman, Blake, Drew, Orvis,
CheeversWilliam H. Charming, and Albert Brisbane,S. Margaret
FullerRalph W. EmersonTheodore Parker and Mr. Ripley's Joke.
CHAPTER V.
THE RUSH AND HUM OF LIFE AND WORK
Many VisitorsAn Odd VisitorThe Groups and Series, etc.The
WorkshopMy first SpringDeath and FuneralThe Amusement Group,
Dances, Walks and first Summer.
CHAPTER VI.
THE "HARBINGER," AND VARIOUS SUBJECTS
The Harbinger Published; Editors and Contributors, Its
Characteristics and EffectThe Industrial PhalanxThe PhalansteryA
Financial ReportThe Grahamites, and their TableJohn Allen and
BoyThe Visitation of Small-pox.
CHAPTER VII.
MY SECOND SPRING
Resumption of BuildingThe Crowded ConditionsGardener's
DepartmentPrince AlbertJumping the BrookRetrenchmentThe
DovesThe GardenerThe Position of Woman in AssociationThe Right to
VoteThe WeddingLizzie CursonOur Young Folks.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE DRAMA AND IMPORTANT LETTERS
The Play in the ShopThe Associative MovementRev. Adin Ballou's
LetterMr. Brisbane's, and Mr. Ripley's LettersMr. Pratt's
DepartureThe Great PartyCyclops.
CHAPTER IX.
SOCIAL, AND PARLOR LIFE
Meetings in Boston, etc.Two Lady FriendsMusic at the
EyryConsciousness of SelfThe Great Snow StormC. P. Cranch's
Imitations.
CHAPTER X.
FUN ALIVE
Fun at the PhalanxRipley's QuotationOn PunningThe Robbery, and the Waiting Group.
CHAPTER XI.
THE GREAT CATASTROPHE
The Last Dance, and the FireThe Harbinger's Account of ItFeeding the FiremenThe Morning after the Fire.
CHAPTER XII.
SUMMING UP AND REVERIES
The Bearings of the Association and its OccupationsSlanders of the
New York PressDefinition of the Associationists Position toward
FourierForebodings at the FarmPersonal Reveries.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE FIRST BREAK
Peter's DepartureMr. Dwight at the Association MeetingPractical
ChristiansThe Solidarity of the RaceMr. Ripley's Harbinger
Article.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE DEPARTURES AND AFTER LIVES OF THE MEMBERS
Breaking upRipley's Poverty, after Life and DeathMr. Pratt; Mr.
Dana; Mr. Dwight, and various PersonsWilliam H. CharmingA.
BrisbaneC. FourierLetters of Approval.
APPENDIX.
PART I.
STUDENTS' AND INQUIRERS' LETTERS
Student LifeExplanations and Answers to ObjectionsLetter on Social
EqualityReligious Views.
INTRODUCTION.
There were two distinct phases in the Associated life at Brook Farm. The first was inaugurated by the pioneers, who introduced a school, and combined it with farm and household labors. The second phase began with an attempt to introduce methods of social science and to add mechanical and other industries to those already commenced. These different phases have been called the Transcendental and the Industrial periods.
Each individual had his special experiences of the life. The writer chronicles it from his standpoint. None, perhaps, was more interested in it than he, young as he was, but many were more able to elaborate it and write it in details, and did he not feel that it was an important duty neglected by all, these memoirs would have remained unwritten.
The record books of the institution are missing, and are doubtless long ago destroyed. These chapters have been compiled and written from few memoranda, at various times, very often after the arduous duties of days of professional life, and with a desire only to present the subject truthfully, faithfully and simply; and also, not wholly to gratify curiosity, or to record the doings of the noble men and women who were wise before their time, but to whisper courage to those who, like their predecessors, are seeking some solution of the social problems that involves neither the too sudden surrender of acquired rights, the reckless abandon of old ideas to untried and crude radicalism, or the more to-be-dreaded feuds between classes, that mean desperation on one side and war on the other; but to aid, if possible, in inspiring a belief that a peaceful adjustment of our surroundings will, in time, bring order out of chaos and harmony out of discord.
The reader will have observed long before he lays down this book, that the Brook Farm life and ideals were purely coperative and philosophical, that all the elements of true society were recognized, and that the attempt was for the better adjustment of them to the changing and changed relations of their fellow-men, brought about by the pervading moral, scientific and social growth of the past and present centuries.
The nation is older, richer and wiser, since the Brook Farm experiment began. It is more tolerant of one another's opinions, more enterprising, progressive and liberal, and surely a few weak trials made half a century ago, are not enough to solve the majestic problem of right living and how to shape the outward forms of society, so that within their environments all interests may be harmonized, and the golden rule begin to be, in a practical way, the measure of all human lives.
The author, in closing, will confide to his readers the wish of his heart, that this sketch of his early days may inspire some who can command influence and means with an interest to continue the experiments in social science, along lines laid out with more or less clearness by the Brook Farmers.
J. T. C.
CHAPTER I.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BROOK FARM MOVEMENT.
Early in the present century, New England was the centre of progressive religious thought in America. A morbid theology had reigned supreme, but its forms were too cold, harsh and forbidding to attract or even retain the liberal-minded, educated and philosophic students of the rising generation, or hold in check the ardent humanitarian spirit, that embodied itself in ideals that were greater than the existing creeds.
Yet nowhere prevailed a more religious spirit. It showed itself in tender care of masses of the people, in public schools and seminaries, in lectures, sermons, libraries and in acts of general benevolence.
From these conditions developed the idea of greater freedom from social trammels; from African slavery, which had not then been abolished; from domestic slavery, which still exists; from the exploitations of trade and commerce; from the vicious round of unpaid labor, vice and brutality. Protestations were heard against all of these evils, not always coming from the poor and unlearned, but oftener from the educated and refined, who had pride that the republic should stand foremost among the nations for justice, culture and righteousness.
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