Mr. Brewster thinks he would rather help you provide for winter
than to be doing the same here.
May the blessing of Heaven attend you all at Brook Farm.
E. B. B. BREWSTER.
APPENDIX.
PART III.
AN OUTSIDE VIEW OF BROOK FARM.
_From the Dial of January, 1844._
Wherever we recognize the principle of progress our sympathies and
affections are engaged. However small may be the innovation, however
limited the effort towards the attainment of pure good, that effort is
worthy of our best encouragement and succor. The institution at Brook
Farm, West Roxbury, though sufficiently extensive in respect to number
of persons, perhaps is not to be considered an experiment of large
intent. Its aims are moderate; too humble, indeed, to satisfy the
extreme demands of the age; yet for that reason, probably, the effort
is more valuable, as likely to exhibit a larger share of actual
success.
Though familiarly designated a "Community," it is only so in the
process of eating in commons; a practice at least as antiquated as the
collegiate halls of old England, where it still continues without
producing, as far as we can learn, any of the Spartan virtues. A
residence at Brook Farm does not involve either a community of money,
of opinions or of sympathy.
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