Chapter VII My Second Spring
Resumption of Building—The Crowded Conditions—Gardener’s Department—Prince Albert—Jumping the Brook—Retrenchment—The Doves—The Gardener—The Position of Woman in Association—The Right to Vote—The Wedding—Lizzie Curson—Our Young Folks.
Chapter VIII The Drama and Important Letters
The Play in the Shop—The Associative Movement—Rev. Adin Ballou’s
Letter—Mr. Brisbane’s, and Mr. Ripley’s Letters—Mr. Pratt’s
Departure—The Great Party—Cyclops.
Chapter IX Social, and Parlor Life
Meetings in Boston, etc.—Two Lady Friends—Music at the Eyry—Consciousness of Self—The Great Snow Storm—C. P. Cranch’s Imitations.
Chapter X Fun Alive
Fun at the Phalanx—Ripley’s Quotation—On Punning—The Robbery, and the Waiting Group.
Chapter XI The Great Catastrophe
The Last Dance, and the Fire—The Harbinger’s Account of It—Feeding the Firemen—The Morning after the Fire.
Chapter XII Summing Up and Reveries
The Bearings of the Association and its Occupations—Slanders of the New York Press—Definition of the Associationists Position toward Fourier—Forebodings at the Farm—Personal Reveries.
Chapter XIII The First Break
Peter’s Departure—Mr. Dwight at the Association Meeting—Practical
Christians—The Solidarity of the Race—Mr. Ripley’s Harbinger
Article.
Chapter XIV The Departures and After Lives of the Members
Breaking up—Ripley’s Poverty, after Life and Death—Mr. Pratt; Mr. Dana; Mr. Dwight, and various Persons—William H. Charming—A. Brisbane—C. Fourier—Letters of Approval.