time to outdoor farm work.

Many of the pupils became interested in the new life with which they
came in contact. It influenced them for good, and in after years they
were full of gratitude and praise for the help and moral tone it
imparted to them. An extract from a letter from Mr. Richard F. Fuller,
the father of Margaret Fuller, to Mr. Ripley at this time reads as
follows:--

"A lady asked me not long since where she should send her daughter to
school. I said at once, to the _Community_, for there she would
learn for the first time, perhaps, that all these matters of creed and
morals are not quite so well settled as to make thinking nowadays a
piece of supererogation, and would learn to distinguish between truth
and the 'sense sublime,' and the dead dogmas of the past. This is the
great benefit I believe you confer upon the young."

The pupil who became most prominent was George William Curtis, who
always acknowledged the beneficial effect it had upon all his future
career.

New England and New York sent in their share of pupils until the
accommodations were crowded. The school flourished. It was not large,
but select. It was necessary to have more room, and a neighbor's
cottage was hired. Enthusiasts wished to build on the place. Plans of
procedure for the Association were indefinite. The central idea of
justice to all men and women was ever uppermost. Mrs. Olvord, a lady of
means, built a small gabled cottage of wood, which, owing to ill
health, she was able to occupy but a short time. At the highest point
of the domain, on a ledge of "pudding-stone," the Association erected a