Ripley, George, American transcendentalist, born in Massachusetts; a friend of Emerson's and founder of Brook Farm (q.v.); took to Carlyle as Carlyle to him, though he was “grieved to see him” taken up with the “Progress of Species” set, and “confusing himself” thereby (1802‒1880).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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