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BROOK FARM
The founder of Brook Farm, George Ripley (1802-1880), was one
of Unitarianism’s most promising ministers, and the farm at West
Roxbury, Massachusetts began as a product of the transcendentalist movement
and a showplace for Christian socialism. The commune had more than 120
members at its highest point and was widely regarded as an intellectual
center. After four years of existence, however, the members changed its
purpose to that of a Fourierist phalanx.
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The Harbinger. New York, N.Y.
: Burgess, Stringer and Co. ; Boston, Mass.: Redding
and Co., Vol. 1, No. 1, Saturday, June 14, 1845.
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The Harbinger
When the headquarters of Fourierism moved from New York City to Brook
Farm in 1845, the Fourierist Magazine, the Phalanx, was renamed
the Harbinger to be published on the Brook Farm printing press.
The magazine soon became one of the outstanding periodicals for recording
the intellectual events of that day.
On the left, an article labeled “Associations” reprinted
from the Ohio State Journal announces an increase in phalanxes
modeled on Fourier’s principles in the growing “movement
for the reorganization of society.”
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