A second band of "come-outers," as people used to be called in that day and region, when they abandoned the common road for reasons not obviously compulsory, went to Northampton in the same State, and from there into corporate obscurity.
[* _Years of Experience._ New York: G.P.

Putnam's Sons, 1887.] Mr.Ripley's scheme was more elastic, and if the money basis of the association had been more solid, there seems no reason on the face of things why this community at Brook Farm might not have enjoyed a much longer lease of life.

It seems to have left a most pleasant memory in the minds of all who were ever members of it.

In matters of belief and of opinion no hard-and-fast lines were drawn at any point.

In matters of conduct, the morality of self-respecting New-Englanders who were at a farther remove from Puritanic creeds than from Puritanic discipline, was regarded as a sufficient guarantee of social decorum.