Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors, Volume 3Macmillan, 1900 - 303 páginas |
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Página 16 - Our objects, as you know, are to insure a more natural union between intellectual and manual labor than now exists; to combine the thinker and the worker, as far as possible, in the same individual; to guarantee the highest mental freedom, by providing all with labor, adapted to their tastes and talents, and securing to them the fruits of their industry; to do away the necessity of menial services, by opening the benefits of education and the profits of labor to all...
Página 47 - The whole fraternity eat together ; and such a delectable way of life has never been seen on earth since the days of the early Christians. We get up at halfpast four, breakfast at half-past six, dine at half-past twelve, and go to bed at nine.
Página 44 - The department of industry shall be arranged in groups and series, as far as practicable, and shall consist of three primary series; to wit, Agricultural, Mechanical, and Domestic Industry. The chief of each series shall be elected every two months by the members thereof, subject to the approval of the general Direction.
Página 158 - Thus Mr. Ripley told Theodore Parker, " There is your accomplished friend , he would hoe corn all Sunday if I would let him, but all Massachusetts could not make him do it on Monday.
Página 16 - ... prepare a society of liberal, intelligent, and cultivated persons, whose relations with each other would permit a more wholesome and simple life than can be led amidst the pressure of our competitive institutions.
Página 200 - While I never met another woman who conversed more freely or lucidly, the attempt to commit her thoughts to paper seemed to induce a singular embarrassment and hesitation. She could write only when in the vein; and this needed often to be waited for through several days, while the occasion sometimes required an immediate utterance.
Página 247 - The question is, whether the Phalanx acknowledges its own limitations of nature, in being an organization, or opens up any avenue into the source of life that shall keep it sweet, enabling it to assimilate to itself contrary elements, and consume its own waste ; so that, phoenixlike, it may renew itself forever in greater and finer forms.
Página 165 - I was invited to dine at Mr. Bancroft's yesterday, with Miss Margaret Fuller ; but Providence had given me some business to do, for which I was very thankful.
Página 147 - ... did. It was all excellent practice. Poe, Cooper, and Anthon / were his youthful hatreds. "According to Colonel Higginson, the 'Professor' was 'the best all-round man at Brook Farm, but was held not to be quite so zealous or unselfish for the faith as were some of the others,' though his speeches in Boston and elsewhere were most effective.
Página 167 - Custom-House experience was not such a thraldom and weariness ; my mind and heart were free. Oh, labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionably brutified ! Is it a praiseworthy matter that I have spent five golden months in providing food for cows and horses ? It is not so.