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bestowed heavy reproaches else where - mentally. It would give me the most
exalted pleasure to see you making your attempt a triumphant fact; and if you can
obtain the necessary funds for the effort, always provided that you get rid of human incumbrances (I wish I could utter the last eight words with a speaking trumpet), I hope
that you will be enabled to try it. I repeat that I cannot perceive any ground for
believing that our literary friends will object to an arrangement which gives
to those who labour intellectually the management of the intellectual pursuits, and to
those who live by physical labour the direction of the material occupations. Your
plan, after all, is the same as or nearly akin to Mr. Dwight's; because the separation
which you propose would be only for a time - provided that success attend both sections.
Again, hereafter, would you write, when the sense & the worth of absolute pecuniary
responsibility had caused both departments, and every member of each of them, to
understand the true relation of one to the other. Once more, would Mr. Ripley be
President, when, and as his friend I say only when, his office should be unattended
by the performance of duties which in other governments have required the time
and ability of several men. But if your plan be impossible, because the difficulties
in your section are insurmountable, then by all means rent the farm to
a responsible individual, and fall back gladly on the admirable alternative
which your brother advocates modified as he has proposed in a subsequent letter
which I received from him. I understand it to be this: that the groups & individuals
shall be pecuniarily responsible for their support; but that any surplus
earned by any group shall be deposited in a general fund for general purposes.
I have written with but little of hope to Mr. Dwight & Miss Curson on the subject
of your future, because I had no information of your proceedings except in a
most desponding letter from Mr. Dana. I much wish that I had received your
and Mr. Dwight's favours previously. I am rejoiced to hear so good an account of
the school, & wish that pecuniarily it had been still better; and my parental anxieties