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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 Achieved Goals: Goals: Methods: Major Impact and Lasting Contribution: Merging of Mind and Body Individual Freedom Equality Important People: Brook Farm: A Utopian Community 1. George Ripley Unitarian minister that became the founder of Brook Farm2. Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist who lived at Brook Farm for 6 months before resigning due to the required workload Documented his miserable time in3. Ralph Waldo Emerson Leader of Transcendentalist Movement that wanted people to preach desire and hope rather than formal theology Declined to join the community4. Henry David Thoreau Leader of Transcendentalist Movement that is best known for his literary works Test visited in 1841, but didn't enjoy his time 1. George Ripley - Unitarian minister that became the founder of Brook Farm2. Nathaniel Hawthorne - Novelist who lived at Brook Farm for 6 months before resigning due to the required workload- Documented his miserable time in3. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Leader of Transcendentalist Movement that wanted people to preach desire and hope rather than formal theology- Declined to join the community4. Henry David Thoreau- Leader of Transcendentalist Movement that is best known for his literary works- Test visited in 1841, but didn't enjoy his time Transcendentalism- Religious and philosophical movement beginning in the 1820's to protest the state of spirituality- Belief that people naturally have knowledge about themselves and their environment, which "transcends" their senses - Transcendentalists thought organized religion corrupted the individual- Helped launch an impatience with "old ways" and desire for immediate experience of the divine Improved Educational System - Sought to combine theintellectual and the worker- Cultivate more well-roundedpeople with simpler lives - Freedom to pursue specificscientific and literary interests- Freedom from the competitionof the capitalist world - Open benefits of education to all- Preschool, primary school and college preparatory school Profits were equallydivided between laborers - Equality for fruits of labor- Gender equality with equallabor and equal pay- Equality between educatedand laboring classes Financed by sale ofstock ($500)-> Purchaser of share became a member Established an agricultural societybased on manual labor Profits were shared equally among all the laborers. Discipline in schoolinstilled a sense of passion for intellectualwork. Labor was shared equally among all the laborers. Brook Farm dissociated after only a few years of existence. Therefore, the only goal that was accomplishedin the long-term wasestablishing a better educational system Failed because residentsknew little about farming Failed because residentsengaged in frequent internal disagreements Failed because of newspapercriticism (dissuading new members) Failed because multiple uninsured buildings were destroyed in a fire. - Became a new source of literary expression ex. Walden Essays, First and Second Series - New belief of being skeptical of established religions and belief that divinity rested in individual- Signs of gender equality- Laid philosophical foundations for those like Walt Whitman The Blithedale Romance and Travis Liu
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