As it
was not yet in use by the Association, and, until the day of its
destruction, not exposed to fire, no insurance had been effected. It
was built by investments in our loan stock, and the loss falls upon the
holders of partnership stock and the members of the Association.
"It is some alleviation of the great calamity which we have sustained that
it came upon us at this time, rather than at a later period. The house was
not endeared to us by any grateful recollections; the tender and
hallowed associations of home had not yet begun to cluster around it,
and although we looked upon it with joy and hope as destined to occupy
an important sphere in the social movement to which it was consecrated,
its destruction does not rend asunder those sacred ties which bind us
to the dwellings that have thus far been the scene of our toils and of
our satisfactions. We could not part with either of the houses in which
we have lived at Brook Farm, without a sadness like that which we
should feel at the departure of a bosom friend. The destruction of our
edifice makes no essential change in our pursuits. It leaves no family
destitute of a home; it disturbs no domestic arrangements; it puts us
to no immediate inconvenience.
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