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design was worthy, and its first results have already reached us.
Mr. Alcott was received with great cordiality of joy and respect by
his friends in London, and presently found himself domesticated at an
institution, managed on his own methods and called after his name,
the School of Mr. Wright at Alcott House, Ham, Surrey. He was
introduced to many men of literary and philanthropic distinction, and
his arrival was made the occasion of meetings for public conversation
on the great ethical questions of the day.
Mr. Alcott's mission, beside making us acquainted with the
character and labors of some excellent persons, has loaded our table
with a pile of English books, pamphlets, periodicals, flying
prospectuses, and advertisements, proceeding from a class very little
known in this country, and on many accounts important, the party,
namely, who represent Social Reform. Here are Educational Circulars,
and Communist Apostles; Alists; Plans for Syncretic Associations, and
Pestalozzian Societies, Self-supporting Institutions, Experimental
Normal Schools, Hydropathic and Philosophical Associations, Health
Unions and Phalansterian Gazettes, Paradises within the reach of all
men, Appeals of Man to Woman, and Necessities of Internal Marriage
illustrated by Phrenological Diagrams.
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