society where the members chose their salaries according to the "repulsiveness" of the occupation. This meant that a privy cleaner would earn more than a schoolteacher. But the most famous of the Fourieristic Societies was Brook Farm founded by George Ripley, which lasted from 1841-1847 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Brook Farm was transcendentalist in orientation and it rejected society standards and enlightenment thought. The individual and the mystery of nature were important in the society and it was modeled around the thoughts of famous thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Nathaniel Hawthorne was once a member of the experiment for a short time and he used his experience for a novel he later wrote, The Blithedale Romance (1852). In 1844, Albert Bisbane convinced Ripley to turn his experiment into a phalanx. The building for the Brook Farm community was underway when in 1846 it burned to the ground. A year later the Brook Farm Commu
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