There were various other details, the most striking of which was that
every pupil was expected to spend from one to two hours daily in manual
labor.
Before the Association started from Boston, a constitution was drawn
up. The following is a copy of the original:--
_Articles of Agreement and Association between the members of the
Institute for Agriculture and Education._
In order more effectually to promote the great purposes of human
culture; to establish the external relations of life on a basis of
wisdom and purity; to apply the principles of justice and love to our
social organization in accordance with the laws of Divine Providence;
to substitute a system of brotherly cooperation for one of selfish
competition; to secure to our children, and to those who may be
entrusted to our care, the benefits of the highest physical,
intellectual and moral education in the present state of human
knowledge, the resources at our command will permit; to institute an
attractive, efficient and productive system of industry; to prevent the
exercise of worldly anxiety by the competent supply of our necessary
wants; to diminish the desire of excessive accumulation by making the
acquisition of individual property subservient to upright and
disinterested uses; to guarantee to each other the means of physical
support and of spiritual progress, and thus to impart a greater
freedom, simplicity, truthfulness, refinement and moral dignity to our
mode of life,--
We, the undersigned, do unite in a Voluntary Association, to wit:--
ARTICLE 1.
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