OUR history of the career of Brook Farm in its final
function of public teacher and propagandist, would not
be complete without some account of its agency in the
great Swedenborgian revival of modern times.

In a series of articles published in the Oneida Cir-
cular a year or two ago, under the title of Sweden-
borgiana, the author of this history said:

"The foremost and brightest of the Associations that
rose in the Fourier excitement, was that at Brook Farm.
The leaders were men whose names are now high in lit-
erature and politics. Ripley, Dana, Channing, Dwight
and Hawthorne, are specimens of the list. Most of
them were from the Unitarian school, whose head-quar-
ters are at Boston and Cambridge. The movement
really issued as much from transcendental Unitarianism
as from Fourierism. It was religious, literary and
artistic, as well as social. It had a press, and at one
time undertook propagandism by missionaries and
lectures. Its periodical, the Harbinger, was ably con-
ducted, and very charming to all enthusiasts of progress.
Our Putney school, which had not then reached Com-
munism, was among the admirers of this periodical, and
undoubtedly took an impulse from its teachings. The

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