Making sense of failure: from death to resurrection in nineteenth-century American communitarianism.(Essay)
From: Utopian Studies
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Date: 3/22/2007
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Author: McKanan, Dan
This is not comedy but direst tragedy. God forbid that we should ridicule it, or think of it with any feeling but saddest sympathy. We ourselves are thoroughly acquainted with these heights and depths. These men and women seem to us like brothers and sisters. We could easily weep with them and for them, if it would do any good. But the better way is to learn what such sufferings teach, and hasten to find and show the true path, which these pilgrims missed; that so their illusions may ...
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