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George Ripley's Brook Farm: Utopian Community

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Brook Farm was a Utopian community in America during the time of the 1800s. Utopias were meant to be a new age in human civilization. Brook Farm was founded by Unitarian minister George Ripley, a famous journalist born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Brook Farm was a Utopia that did not practice a religion. When a Utopian is created, the purpose is to make a community where everyone is assigned a job based on their skills to make goods. Utopias often strive for perfection by using and following a set of strict morals. Utopian leaders believe when you started from scratch with a community, it could be a perfect place. When minister George Ripley discover Brook Farm there was already over 80 Utopias. Brook Farm had seventeen members,

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