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| | George Ripley |
 | | George Ripley (1802-1880), minister of the Purchase Street Church in Boston, 1826-41, was a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement of the 1830s and 40s, a founder in 1841 of the Brook Farm commune, and later one of America's most prominent literary reviewers and critics. |
 | | As Ripley's description indicates, the underlying assumption of the experiment, and of Fourierist philosophy, was that work necessary to support a community could be distributed in such a way as to match people's tasks with their individual desires and ability to do them. |
 | | Ripley wrote extensively for the Christian Examiner during his Purchase Street Church ministry, and many of his essays there, especially "Schleiermacher as a Theologian," Christian Examiner 20 (1836); and "Martineau's Rationale of Religious Inquiry," Christian Examiner 21 (1836); were influential in the emergence of the Transcendentalist movement. |
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