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George Ripley

Biography: -Graduated from Harvard College in 1823, and Harvard Divinity College in 1826 -minister of Purchase Street Church in Boston, 1826-41 -confounded the Brook Farm in 1841, along with Nathaniel Hawthorne -contributor to the //Christian Examiner// in the 1830's -late wrote under Horace Greeley in the //New York Tribune// -English teacher

Question 1: -I am a strong supporter of the Transcendentalism movement, and its views on the importance and efficiency of human striving. We believe that unity was necessary for a strong community, thus came of the term Unitarian. Along with being a transcendentalist, I am greatly engaged in the Associationism movement, which stressed cooperative, non-competitive social arrangements whose design and practice would bring "universal harmony."

Question 2: -writer in the Christian Examiner, the leading Unitarian theological journal of the day -leading spokesman in the Transcendentalism movement -very committed to social justice, and later became increasingly engaged with the "Associationism" movement -member of the Transcendental Club -became an English teacher at Brook Farm -outspoken defender of the transcendental gospel -currently reside in New York, where I write for the New York Tribune and will cease to death in 1880

Question 3: -work necessary in a community could be distributed in such a way as to mach people's tasks with their individual desires and ability to do them. "A classless, non-competitive society would result." Providing for my belief in strong community and individual intellect. -search of the ideal society -preached religious truth as "intuitive," rather than the liberal religious thinking coming out of Europe at the time

Question 4: -Brook Farm has been my greatest accomplishment in pursuit of my goals -Brook Farm has been considered one of the most famous Utopian experiments in American history, and linked me to other Transcendentalists of the time including Nathaniel Hawthorne,Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Sullivan Dwight. Hawthorne especially supported this institution by extending its literary fame in //The Blithedale Romance//, while Emerson was a great philosopher of the time -the experiment served to provide change in social lives of the time, and would insure more natural fellowship between intellectual and manual labor, and guarantee the highest mental freedom, by providing others with skills they are familiar with -established //The Harbringer//, a periodical devoted to the exposition of Associationist theory

Question 5: -if the federal government had only supported me in my experiment (Brook Farm), by providing me some money so I could finance the project. This financial crisis was eventually the demise for my project

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