Third Dispensation
The Dial's edition: London, 1841
A tract on spiritual and social reform, articulating Lane's vision of a higher dispensation beyond both Jewish law and Christian gospel—a communitarian, mystical Christianity.
Bernard Lamy
William Law
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Charles Lane(1800–1872)
English-born Transcendentalist, abolitionist, and social reformer who moved between radical pedagogy, journalism, and experimental communalism. In England he edited a mercantile price-current and was shaped by James Pierrepont Greaves and the Ham Common 'Alcott House' milieu; after meeting Bronson Alcott in 1842, he accompanied him to Massachusetts and in June 1843 co-founded Fruitlands, purchasing the Harvard, MA acreage and pressing the community's strict program of self-sufficiency, communal property, rejection of trade and hired labor, and an expansive ethical regimen (including vegan principles and opposition to slave-produced cotton).
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