"Bronson Alcott's "Autobiographical Index

OT all battlefields are bloody: the grass on one Massachusetts hillside never felt the tramp of marching boots, yet men once fought there, endured sickness, and knew defeat. But their defeat was not final: it was only one skirmish in the neverending war between the life that is and the life that ought to be. The story of the attempt of Bronson Alcott and Charles Lane to give a local habitation and a name to an ideal society at Fruitlands has often been told. Louisa May Alcott satirized it in her Transcendental Wild Oats; F. B. Sanborn tried his hand at it in his book Bronson Alcott at Alcott House, England, and Fruitlands, New England;1 Clara Endicott Sears has collected much evidence in her Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands, and has preserved the physical features of the experiment in her Harvard Museum; Odell Shepard devotes a chapter to it in his excellent biography Pedlar's Progress; and brief discussions are almost innumerable

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