In the first place Ripley and Dana did not thus immediately succeed Raymond on the _Tribune_. The American Cyclopaedia says that Raymond left the _Tribune_ and joined Webb on the _Courier and Enquirer_ in 1843. But Ripley and Dana retained their connection with Brook Farm till October 30, 1847, and continued to edit the _Harbinger_ in New York till February 10, 1849, as we know by the files of that paper in our possession. They could not have joined the _Tribune_ before the first of these dates, and probably did not till after the last; so that there was an interval of from three to six years between Raymond's leaving and their joining the _Tribune_. But the most important error of the above quoted paragraph is its implication that the "Fourieristic phase" of the _Tribune_ was after Raymond left it, and was owing to the advent of Ripley and Dana "fresh from Brook Farm." The truth is, that the _Tribune_ had become the organ of Mr. Brisbane, the importer of Fourierism, in March 1842, less than a year from its commencement (which was on April 10, 1841); and of course had its "Fourieristic phase" while Raymond was employed on it, and in fact before Ripley and Dana had been converted to Fourierism. Brook Farm, be it ever remembered, was originally an independent Yankee experiment, started in 1841 by the suggestion of Dr. Channing, and did not accept Fourierism till the winter of 1843-4. During the entire period of Brisbane's promulgations in the _Tribune_, which lasted more than a year, and which manifestly caused the great Fourier excitement of 1843, Brook Farm had nothing to do with Fourierism, except as it was being carried away with the rest of the world, by Brisbane and the _Tribune_. Thus it is certain that Ripley and Dana did not bring Fourierism into the _Tribune_, but on the contrary received Fourierism from the _Tribune_, during the very period when Raymond was assisting Greeley. When they joined the _Tribune_ in 1847-9, Fourierism was in the last stages of defeat, and the most that they or Greeley or any body else did for it after that, was to help its retreat into decent oblivion. The obituary writer probably fell into these mistakes by imagining that the controversy between Greeley and Raymond, which occurred in 1846, while Raymond was employed on the _Courier and Enquirer_, was the principal "Fourieristic phase" of the _Tribune_. But this was really an after-affair, in which Greeley fought on the defensive as the rear-guard of Fourierism in its failing fortunes; and even this controversy took place before Brook Farm broke up; so that Ripley and Dana had nothing to do with it.