The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-11
AlCOrT Ann HIS HOME

and died aged s.. The younger genera
ton OF readers is better acquainted wita
the family name through the writings OF
his talented daughter, Miss Louisa "a
Alc0tt; but 20 the active thinkers "a
lejO-jO the announcement Of the old pht
osopher's death Will bring rccollect ioas
and signs. not unmiXed with smiles. TIC
smiles Will be in tender memory OF ID,
days II "Brook FARM and other semi
socialistic experiments, when BronSoe
Alcott was u noted and very radical ~
former In almost every line of living, end
equally o. the methods Of teaching.
Very few nen have been the subject u
so much good humOred laughter ard
gentle criticism; every one liked himA
many devotcdly loved him. a very few
believed In him, and the mass Of man
kind called him a crank" And ne
wonder, Tor bc founded his system o.
teaching on two aXi0ms-that the sou,
came into tho world from u realm OF puro
spirit, and that the body was degraded by
strong meats; hence, he maintained
children boz whom the pure spirits had bpi
lately been iucarnated were 10 be dcsis
with as naturally pure, and corruption q.
MANTLE rurity Was 10 be avoided hy
proper dict. which should consist almost
entirely OF milk. fruit aud discriminating
vegetables. IL E scarcely necessary 90
say that the average American parent
knowing the real nature Of children ~
painful experience. laughed the phiius0~
uhcr 90 scorn Nevertheless he tau.hi
school iu Boston for six wears on his
ff..urH ar.f u|f.ut..n1 ..a.n.re.f H sng..
"iufaniiiC quest 40 Concord, whore some
traces Of tlia, -chool system still remain
lie governed his school on the very Un,
orthodox theory that man is by nature
prone Ia do right. and that the opinions os
children. before their pcryorsion, are yalu
able; so he kept % record Of the childish
replies TO h. mcst pulling questions,
and a very extraordinary record il was
His own education was an extraordinary
patchwork. Porn az WOlcott. Conn,
Nov. %. 1879. he commenced protesting
against the existing condition of things ~
soon as Ae was able 20 write, and kept Il
up for sixty five years, till q paralytr
stroke in 1850 deprived him Of power TO
aeitatc further. At an early age he made
"a long tour of the south ~ a peddler, read
ing every book he could get hold OF and
debating all disputed themes with his
customers and entertainers. After his
experience ~ a teacher in Boston, he set
tied in Concord in 1896, and labored s.N
years 10 found 70 school Of vegetar.ans
In 1872 lac went 20 England, and return
ing thence with two friends cstablisnet, a
place near Harvard called Fruit landSn
which Vas 10 be- a sort Of Eden Of frUiS
diet and piimcyal simplicity. OF cOurrr
the ''old serpent got IN and Eden" was
abandoned. lie next worked in con
neCtiou with Emerson as a tr~ansccndeuill.
isl, and published the "Orphic Sayings"
In 1868 Doc publ she'd Tablets" in 1914
Days and in 1872, Table
IalA '-a.. mli of the same mystical
about pare souls and possible per
Do .-dD be married Mis-, May, ot
ly whom hc had one daughter
The famous author q; Little Women and
Stories turc.Iidreu. II is one OF tho
contrast. $50 find in domestic lie
tlc W.tc was % plain, common sense
Yankee sirl. and the daughter wrtoSs
intensely practical, while the old
remained an intuitioualist Ok
rhsc.ul,ntal.-t dreamer 10 the last