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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 1: re-formation and Reanimation.—1841. (search)
heme of a community as ever. Rev. Geo. Ripley. He has made some progress towards establishing one at West Roxbury, where he lived last summer. The main trouble is the root of all evil, as he finds plenty of penniless adventurers and but few moneyed ones. Emerson thought of it but retired. Still, R. is sanguine, and I hope will succeed, for what a residence such a neighborhood would make Dedham! On January 30, 1841: Ripley is actually going to commence the New State and the New Church at Ellis's farm. . . . in the spring. Ms. Quincy to J. A. Collins. The idea of Brook Farm, as it was henceforth to be known, notoriously proceeded from Dr. Channing. In his recent work on West India Emancipation he had even professed to see in the original principles of the abolitionists a struggling of the human mind towards Christian union, Lib. 11.10. and said he had hoped that this body, purified, Lib. 11.1. would found a religious community. One of their number, the Rev. Adin Ballou, present