, now on
a visit from America. Omnibuses travel to and fro, and the Richmond
steam-boat reaches at a convenient hour."
Of this conference a private correspondent has furnished us
with the following report.
A very pleasant day to us was Wednesday, the sixth of July. On
that day an open meeting was held at Mr. Wright's, Alcott-House
School, Ham, Surrey, to define the aims and initiate the means of
human culture. There were some sixteen or twenty of us assembled on
the lawn at the back of the house. We came from many places; one 150
miles; another a hundred; others from various distances; and our
brother Bronson Alcott from Concord, North America. We found it not
easy to propose a question sufficiently comprehensive to unfold the
whole of the fact with which our bosoms labored. We aimed at nothing
less than to speak of the instauration of Spirit and its incarnation
in a beautiful form. We had no chairman, and needed none. We came
not to dispute, but to hear and to speak. And when a word failed in
extent of meaning, we loaded the word with new meaning.
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