Redwood A Tale - 2 Author:Catharine Maria Sedgwick Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: E. Bliss and E. White Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Collections / American / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Note... more »s: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XV. " Le bonheur ae compose d'une suite d'actions et de unmtioii contiuu ellement repettes et renouvelees; eimplicitl et monotonii voilft eo genera' :e qtii !e forme et le constitue." Madame de Grnlis. The Shaker society at Hancock in Massachusetts is one of the eldest establishments of this sect, which has extended its limits far beyond the anticipations of the ' unbelieving world,' and now boasts that its outposts have advanced to the frontiers of civilization -- to Kentucky -- Ohio -- and Indiana ; and exults '; the verification of the prophecy, " a little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation." The society is distributed into several families of a convenient size for domestic arrangements, and the whole body is guided and governed by ' elder brothers' and ' elder sisters,' whose ' gifts' of superior wisdom, knowledge, or cunning, obtain for them these titles, and secure to them their rights and immunities. There are gradations of rank, or as they choose to designate No family, we believe is permitted to exceed a hundred members. Hear and admire, ye housekeepers ! their distinctions, of ' privilege' among them ; but none are exempt from the equitable law of their religious republic, which requires each individual to ' labour with his hands according to his strength.' A village is divided into lots of various ...« less