Excerpt from The Community, Groton, Massachusetts: The Story of a Neighborhood

One pleasant autumn day in the year 1840, four young men were tramping in company along the Great Road, from Concord to Groton. The party was composed of Theodore Parker and George Ripley of Boston, Christopher P. Cranch of Newton, and A. Bronson Alcott of Concord.

To fully appreciate the conditions which led the people of 1840 and the following years. To take up this ism, we must consider that it was a period given up largely to an analysis of all beliefs and dogmas, and that in those days there were not lacking men of independent thought and initiative.

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