The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-10-16
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extremely panied to see IN your paper OF Mondsy
the following statement with regard to the Doctrine Of
Association You say; They are to have no church, no
clergyman church service no appointed time tor
divine worship Of any kind No form OF reigion at all "
SC.
Your paper has as am well aware, an immense crcu-
aton tho above statement will DO read by thousands Of
persons and consequence thousands Of persons with
the exception of those who acquainted with doc
trine) will be deeply prejudiced against 1t.
Permit me to state explicitly;
LIST That Association will maintain all individual rights
the first of which is Individual Property. To do this
the personal and real estate OF IT, its
lands edfce hscks sc will be represented by stock d.
vded into shares Danks railroads. &c at present.
and each individual will stock proportoned to the
amount of capital which he invests.
ID That Association will respect and maintain sacredly
all true and Legitimate sentiments moral principles in
manthe most noble and elevated OF which the Rs.
gous.Senment. Divine Worship is the external mani.
iestation OF the Religious Sentiment and Association will
give to both the greatest purity and the highest dignity
possible
The religious sentment gows with deep intensity In
the human soul but it 10 sadly smothered in present
societies by poverty ignorance harassing
sive development the sensual tendencies and by vice
and crime. In observation-disclosures superior education
will be given to every being where the hearts OF all will
be elevated by and their minds enlightened by science
and where misery, vice and crime " i'll be extirpaed-wi
the religious sentiment be less strong less general less
pure than at present Will it, above all. be destroyedf
leave you TO judge.
The practical part the doctrine of Association il very
easily understood To hundred or more fam lilies, who
are living separately ina hundred HOUSEKEEPING enor-
rents and going through less repetition Of do
nestle abor-we say unite and assocste obtain tract Of
land which TO locate yourselves and the soil hch
you cultivate. Erect large edihce with suits Of apart
ments at various prices and separated by division walls
which Will rent instead OF isolated houses Own the
machinery that it will work for you and
you. Connect agricultural and manufacturing pursuits
apply your lsbors and skill wel-buy your goods at
wholesaleestablish multiplicity Of occupations tied
10 the tastes and capacities of both and all
guarantee constant employment and the choice OF work to
aavoid all wasteeconomise in every way that does uot
interfere with comfortsnd divide equitbay the profits OF
united labor, each receiving share proporonae to
the part which he has taken in creating them.
We wish TO give the people abundance and Wedge.
and raise them out Of the state OF moral and spiritual des
ttution into which they comparatively sunk. This
only be done by changing the present ysmof ndu
labor and the present mode OF living and this chi
ge advocate. II would be perfectly false hes'A@s
ing silly and impoc, to wish to do with religion
should think Of doing away with friend hip
the patrrnal feeling. A. BRISBANE
REMARKS This is the reply of the new philoso-
pher We give it for what il is worth. 1t does not
materially alter the general view gave of Four
ierism, its connection with political movements
for the first time made in this country. Probably
the famous prediction Of 49, per day with roast
beef" cannot be realized till society be recognized
on the Fourier principle. Be it so. GO ahead, Ho-
race Greeley-go ahead, Albert Brisbane. You are
perhaps beginning great social revolution here
a Rousseau and Voltare did in France.