It was our purpose…to give up whatever we had heretofore attained, for the sake of showing mankind the example of a life governed by other than the false and cruel principles on which human society has all along been based. The Blithedale Romance is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s not so thinly based autobiographical account of his 8 …

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