Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . -^ > < <? ^ ?-: IS £3l iO ^ S <,x -- < 1 c- -^ !A. -1 ? - -O ^ ; o- = 8 C ^ -C QC ^^ -o CO -/^ ?*^. IN OLD BOSTON 27 to take charge of even one soul. Certainlyhe shrank, almost with horror, from the as-sociative life implied in the Brook Farm proposi-tion, though, all the while, the idealist in himgave the movement secret encouragement andapplause. Mr. Ripley had already in mind the spot uponwhich to try his experiment, for, in the summerof 1840, he and his wife had boarded at
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . -^ > < <? ^ ?-: IS £3l iO ^ S <,x -- < 1 c- -^ !A. -1 ? - -O ^ ; o- = 8 C ^ -C QC ^^ -o CO -/^ ?*^. IN OLD BOSTON 27 to take charge of even one soul. Certainlyhe shrank, almost with horror, from the as-sociative life implied in the Brook Farm proposi-tion, though, all the while, the idealist in himgave the movement secret encouragement andapplause. Mr. Ripley had already in mind the spot uponwhich to try his experiment, for, in the summerof 1840, he and his wife had boarded at apleasant milk-farm in West Roxbury throughwhich a little brook ran cheerfully down to theCharles River near by, and in which he foundmany of the possibilities he sought. They hadleft the place full of eagerness to return andcarry out what had become their dearest wish:a movement to insure a more natural unionbetween intellectual and manual labor thanexists; to combine the thinker and the workeras far as possible in
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