...you have made your American visit. I assure you the view of Britain is excellent from New England. We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...scholars, with whom he threatens to take the field and the book.1 One man renounces the use of animal food ; and another of coin ; and another of domestic hired...

...you have made your American visit. I assure you the view of Britain is excellent from New England. We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...scholars, with whom he threatens to take the field and the book.1 One man renounces the use of animal food ; and another of coin ; and another of domestic hired...

...you have made your American visit. I assure you the view of Britain is excellent from New England. We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...resolved to live cleanly. George Ripley is talking up a col-' ony of agriculturists and scholars, with whom he threatens to take the field and the book.1 One...

...England," and " ' The Dial ' dying of inanition ! " In October, 1840, Emerson writes to Carlyle : — "We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...threatens to take the field and the book. One man re-. nonnces the use of animal food ; and another of coin ; and another of domestic hired service ;...

...are also to be found. " We are a little wild here," wrote Emerson to Carlyle, on October 30, 1840, "with numberless projects of social reform. Not a reading man but has his draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself." Socialism was indeed...

...Transcendental movement in America. "Not a reading man in the community," wrote Emerson in 1840, " but has a draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket." Yet when, in 1841, he was asked to join the experiment, he refused. He was " resolved to live cleanly,"...

...Carlyle in the previ- Oct. 30, ous autumn, " We are all a little wild here with number- 184 °' less projects of social reform. Not a reading man but has...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket." And on December 31, 1840, Quincy wrote to Collins: MS. " Ripley is as full of his scheme of a community...

...influenced by the zeit geist t It was, indeed, a potent geist. Emerson writes of it to Carlyle, — "We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...gently mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly." It is believed that Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" had a hand in the raising of that geist, and it was...

...England," and " 'The Dial ' dying of inanition ! " In October, 1840, Emerson writes to Carlyle : — " We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly. George Eipley is talking up a colony of agriculturists and scholars, with whom he threatens to take the field...

...Boston as the center of liberal and humanitarian notions was deeply stirred. Emerson wrote to Carlyle, "We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket." Surrounded with such influences, Mr. and Mrs. Ripley became enthusiastic. "That so strong a feeling,"...