Flashcard sets with a 'brook farm' term meaning 'started in 1841 in massachusetts and comprised of a brotherly/sisterly cooperation of 20 intellectuals committed to the philosophy of transcendentalism; they collapsed under debt after a fire in 1846 destroyed a recently built communal building; this community inspired nathaniel hawthorne's novel, "the blithedale romance"'

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