History of West Roxbury–Part Deux..

Posted by: Robert Holley
Posted on: Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Categories: History Of..., West Roxbury, Roslindale

West Roxbury in the nineteenth century was a rural section of the countryside, with mostly farmers living on vast tracts of land.  This rural aspect is what drew Reverend George Ripley when he established the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education on September 29, 1841.george_ripley.jpgA Utopian community, Brook Farm’s purpose was: ”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; to establish a system of brotherly cooperation for one of selfish competition; to secure to our children and 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 that 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.” These lofty, and sincere, ideals would make Brook Farm and

West Roxbury known throughout the world.

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  1. Tim on June 8th, 2007 5:59 am

    I am learning more and more about West Roxbury each day. So much to learn, so little time

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