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George Ripley
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George Ripley By: Mallori Herishko, Kelly Bayruns and Annie Bayruns
Why Ripley's Movement is significant
- Transcendentalism contributes to many of the cultural ideals we have today
- It was one of the first movements to support true equality
- Huge effect on American literature: importance that it put on writting, imagination and expression of one's own thoughts
Contributions to Movement
How the Movement was Successful
- Helped to support equality movements like abolition, and later women's rights
- Although the movemnet died out, many of its ideals were absorbed into American culture, like the idea of the importance of the self
Reform Movement After Death
- Attempts to create utopian societies started to end after Brook Farms
- During the 1870s, the movement began to die out due to a lack of relevance to pulic interests
- Movement gone before death of Ripley
- Became involved in the movement through the Unitarian Church in which he was a minister
- He was one of the first people to attempt to
create a utopian society in America
- He taught ideas from the reformer Charles Fourier
- Was an active member of the Transcendentalists Club
- Was the leading spokesman of the movement
"Utopian Society"
How His movement Failed
Works Cited
- After Brook Farms, attempts to create a Utopian society slowly ended
- The civil war gave the movement a purpose, abolition, but after the war the movement became irrelevant
Danzer, Gerald A. The Americans. Orlando,
FL: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. 238-69. Print.
"George Ripley | American Journalist."
Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2016. Web. 17 Jan. 2016. <http://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Ripley>.
Gordon, Jessica. "Ideas--Brook Farm History."
Ideas--Brook Farm History. American Transcendentalism Web, n.d. Web. 17 Jan. 2016. <http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/ideas/brhistory.html>.
"Transcendentalism, An American
Philosophy." Ushistory.org. Independence Hall Association, 2008. Web. 17 Jan. 2016. <http://www.ushistory.org/us/26f.asp>.
- Brook Farms in West Roxbury, Massachussetts
- Joint Stock Company
- Followed transcendetalist ideals
- Socialist ideas from Charles Fourier
- Manual laybor helps mental health
- Lasted from 1841-1847
- Attempted to build a phalanstery
- Closed due to financial issues
Transcendentalism
- GR led a group of youth enitled the "transcendentalists"
- Created unique American literature
- People possesing knowlege about life that goes beyond the five senses
- Not a religious belief
- Informal gatherings
- Distantly related to Unitarianism
Early Life
- Born into a Puritan family
- Lived in Boston
- His family joined the Unitarian side of the "New England Congregationalism"
- Graduated from Harvard
George Ripley
- Born on October 3, 1802 in Greenfield Massachusetts.
- Died July 4, 1880 in New York