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Much as I liked Hollingsworth, it cost ht to have co so the condition of his higher instincts afterwards

The rest of us for our

infant coreatly more

difficulty than the uninitiated reader would suppose Blithedale was

neither good nor bad We should have resumed the old Indian name of

the premises, had it possessed the oil-and-honey flohich the

aborigines were so often happy in co to their local

appellations; but it chanced to be a harsh, ill-connected, and

interminable word, which seemed to fill the mouth with a mixture of

very stiff clay and very cruested "Sunny

Glimpse," as expressive of a vista into a better system of society

This we turned over and over for a while, acknowledging its prettiness,

but concluded it to be rather too fine and sentimental a name (a fault

inevitable by literary ladies in such attempts) for sunburnt men to

work under I ventured to whisper "Utopia," which, however, was

unanimously scouted down, and the proposer very harshly maltreated, as

if he had intended a latent satire So our

institution "The Oasis," in view of its being the one green spot in the

moral sand-waste of the world; but others insisted on a proviso for

reconsidering the ht be had, whether to na it i better, we resolved

that the spot should still be Blithedale, as being of good augury

enough