Show A SOCIAL experiment thinking men bare long educe ex that there h OB intrinsically wrong in the social ar ts of tho bumm nice there i some screw loose in tb mechanism of society whereby un pleasant far and fatal frictions are produced liena there ia not a century in history without beveral of individuals or tle attempting to set right whit they feel to bo wrong to equalize the une qualities qua litie between man and man to harmonize the discord between the damandi of nature and the kellne of civilization schemes wre productions of hair brained fuch as the ana baptist bap tint of the century who in munster eel up a abort meigu of iut and rapine other were of a purer character acu a ahe in piedmont by and reformers reform era attracted public attention for a time fascinating thosa hungering after innovation by the apparent thorough neM of the etem but after lome lapse of time they alt in deplorable failure based only on the individual inclination of men not emanating from superior ken such an experiment pure and wholesome in it efforts true and noble in its motives haa been recalled to our mind recently by tho demie of aeo ripley the lie library editor of the new york tribune in 1840 the dr channin the last man in the world to encourage a and impossible tool counsel wih mr ripley on the pont if it awe pos ible to bring thoughtful cultivated people together and make which deserved the name it wa mr ripley wio endeavored to re duce the theories of pru lator and and economists to practice thug was the well known brook farm association of education and agriculture in west roxbury mass of which mr ripley was the geul and until its unfortunate dissolution in afdera seven year with tha most adver iio circumstances chichas chas in nov england contains an account of its history turned the hope into a dreim the experiment not eco noro ical detail but rather economical sagacity fiill mr ripley rought to this singular aal ci me what miscellaneous community com munty a careful common fene an active intelligence telli gence and a sagacity sagi city which mer led better its intention was more off dually to promote the lur posea of human culture to ish the external relations of life on a babis of wisdom and purity to substitute u system of brotherly cooperation for conof competition the waa open to all act and welcomed HI amdi and IP grees of intellectual culture I with ahe sulfide world od its produce and rold it culture to children requiring education the wa about wrenty comprising many men and women of the highest intellectual and moral such as margaret puller dw ight yurii hawthorne emmon was i although he never joined it chece and gentlemen imbued with tha highest refine jaent of modern culture certainly realized painful in llie unsuccessful endeavor of coming down to first principles in haw thorn american nota boole w find many interesting and even amusing anecdotes of the life which mr ripley and hi frie nili led at brook farm tharo is an amusing confusion on the part of haw thorne that be did not milk upon a certain evening braue mr ripley yas arpud to trust the co vs to his bands or the fayish to their horna when cawthorne broke tho macl iino lor chopping hay mr cipley attributed ahe calastro cat astro phe to his righteous ons vehemence it was alo mr ripley who put a pronga instrument into the formers hands and gao him to un was H pitchfork eiith which he was to attack a heap of manure clr also is on record as having at one time bought four black piga all these anecdotal lead one to decry tho aholo experiment ni mi fared of town ick but it was an honest adl bitant ger jiJU enterprise un wih a view not only to the founders but eventually to lecome a pattern to all society the cultured gentlemen and ludiea lacked neither brains character means all they in default of WAS that in which proceeds not from books and manilca man inca appa at rucile in old documents and musty parchments parch ments but ninalea nin atea fron a higher sphere bat inspiration which animated the church of christ of fn an days and permeates the church of the latter day len ingenuity may contrive much but all tho culture philosophy and belenco of tho world cannot that success which is for establishing aej fara f tho brook farm ended in failure lili all nilar beniti hate done enlightened and buoyed up by abo inspiration of th arco of all weadom the iua wars on baud aad tha and and tho bateni it away into abo of oblivion and the bop |