Chapter XLII: Section 1: declares that "the name of this Association shall be The

Brook Farm Phalanx." We quote a few paragraphs from the preamble:

"At the last session of the legislature of Massachusetts, our
Association was incorporated under the name which it now
assumes, with the right to hold real estate to the amount of one
hundred thousand dollars. This confers upon us all the usual
powers and privileges of chartered companies.

"Nothing is now necessary to the greatest possible measure of
success, but capital to furnish sufficient means to enable us to
develop every department to advantage. This capital we can now
apply profitably and without danger of loss. We are well aware
that there must be risk in investing money in an infant
Association, as well as in any other untried business; but with
the labors of nearly four years we have arrived at a point where
this risk hardly exists.

"By that increasing number whose most ardent desire is to see
the experiment of Association fairly tried, we are confident
that the appeal we now make will not be received without the
most generous response in their power. As far as their means and
their utmost exertions can go, they will not suffer so favorable
an opportunity for the realization of their fondest hopes to
pass unimproved. Nor do we call upon Americans alone, but upon
all persons of whatever nation, to whom the doctrines of
universal unity have revealed the destiny of man. Especially to
those noble men who in Europe have so long and so faithfully
labored for the diffusion and propagation of these doctrines, we
address what to them will be an occasion of the highest joy, an
appeal for fraternal co-operation in behalf of their
realization. We announce to them the dawning of that day for
which they have so hopefully and so bravely waited, the
upspringing of those seeds that they and their compeers have
sown. To them it will seem no exaggeration to say that we, their
younger brethren, invite their assistance in a movement which,
however humble it may superficially appear, is the grandest both
in its essential character and its consequences, that can now be
proposed to man; a movement whose purpose is the elevation of
humanity to its integral rights, and whose results will be the
establishment of happiness and peace among the nations of the
earth.

"By order of the Central Council,
"GEORGE RIPLEY, _President_.

"_West Roxbury, May 20, 1845._"