The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-11-11

son, anG 1idTGa7et Tu11eT ec11oTs. 1.nal IL
made q sensation is not doubted. The farm
boarded members for 81 a week; it allowed
members to work at whatever they liked, and
paid the same wages for manual as for in
tellectual labor. The theory was that it was
an asylum where crime or poverty couIu
never enter, and where earthly bliss was in
reach. Ripley presented the organization his
splendid library, and Charles A. Dana was
secretary of this band of Missionaries and
dreamers The names Of so many Of the ac-
tive participants In the movement who after
wart filled such large places in the Nations
literature and history save the enterprise
from severe criticism. It was this movement
which gave Margaret Fuller prominence she
would not otherwise have received. She has
added not one 1.-THE much of honor and real
value to American literature as have score
of other noble American women, and yet she
is the only woman who has more than brief
mention in al the chapters of this book, and
as well in q book on American literature no.
ticed last week. The author says Of her: ts.s
Margaret Fuller's standard was, false.
It was not the natural, but tho unnatural,
that appealed to her. She had decided bias
toward the romantic, the exaggerated and
the eccentric. BY nature superstitious,
believer in charms, fated days, talismans,
presentiments, she ignored real science, but
gave ready acquiescence to the preposterous
claims Of .mesmerism and its goblin brood
Subject, she says of herself, .to the sudden
revelations, the breaks in habitual existence.
caused by the aspect of death, the touch Ct
love, the flood Of music, I never lived, that
remember, what you call q common natural
day. All my days are touched by the super
natural, for feel the pressure Of hidden cause
7 and the presence, something's the communion,
OF unseen powers" And in closing thit
sketch Miss Fisher sums up and says. She
was woman of remarkable talent, who mis-
took passionate love Of beauty and a pas.
siOnate desire to reproduce It for the power
to fulfill that desire, and lost herself In futile
settlements. She was not content to SCI
.i.ings .ney are. but as sle ti... III.
,ught tn be. and lost the real word for re-
rrrr1 snf hs
she was impatient OF slow intellectual growth,
incapable OF loving knowledge for itsen alone
and OF bearing the privatioHs and lonely OBJ
security of the earnest scholars life, and sac
rlhced enduring glory for the feeting glory OF
an hour. But II she missed the literary fame
she coveted, her life was by no means fail
ure, but had its beauty and meaning, of which
no uncertain reflections have come down to
us. To those who knew her she was an in
tellectual stimulus, a source of inspiration,
and many lives we're enriched by her influ-
5ence. Bat Margaret Fuller's influence Oh.
American literature has long been oyeresti-
mated. It Is sentiment, growing out Of he.
sad ending, and net from actual merit.
Miss Fisher thinks Emerson Sin many re-
In american History. But when she. comes
to view Emerson as q evel-headed thinker
she sums him up admirably when she says:
The fundamental characteristics Of his mind
is en- Unsuitable curiosity. It pushes into the
srem0iest corners OF the intellectual world.
1t gathers up all the ideas that attractft, an.
the result Is q HETEROGENEOUS collection that