2 8 A m e r i c a n P u r i t a n i s m a n d C o l o n i a

inspired 2 experiments in co-operative living and high thinking near Boston: the ‘Brook Farm’ and ‘Fruitlands’ (both 1840s) their radical force and quality of social and relig. protest became eventually diluted and dissipated by 1870s and gave way to the Am. Renaissance. I d e a ( l ) s : a spiritual, philos., and lit. movement: free thinkers in relig., Kantanian and idealistic in ... ................
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