ABSTRACT
After his immersion for some months in the Utopian dreams of Brook Farm, Miles Coverdale in The Blithedale Romance discovered that he had drifted far from reality. “No sagacious man,” he remarked, “will long retain his sagacity, if he live exclusively among reformers and progressive people, without periodically returning into the settled system of things, to correct himself by a new observation from that old standpoint.”
