New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-08-16
AS ISOLATION:
Or, Principles OF True Organization OF Society.

A S o C. A L ON;
Or, Principles OF True Organization OF Society.
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| II A LECTURE on the Material aud Social Advantages
of Association will be delivered This Evening, TuesdayI
al The Hall Of the Fourier Association. al Broadway.
The Lecture will be free.
We pointed out in our last article four principal
causes of Intenperance. we might have added
another, which applies more particularly to large
Cities lit is the want OF agreeable occupations
and social relations during evenings and periods
| OF intermission of work. There are thousands Of
persons in our Cities who, when night comes, have
no place of resort bat groceries, eating-houses,
grog-shops OF taverns. They nuat purchase some
thing to pay for the right of occupancy and glass
of liquor is the common toll. Friends are also
called upsa to "treat around" and habit Of
drinking b thus forced upon thousands, who,
under different circumstances, would haze alb
stained from it.
How can Drunkenness. under all the forms
which we have examined, be done away with q
how can the causes be for ever eradicated! We
assert that this great and n,uch-wi.hed-for end
can never be attained SO long the present false
Social Organization exists, fer Drunkenness, like
Poverty and Crime, is one of its results. To
Danish the curse Of incompetence from the earth,
now and for ever, we must have system of So
eiety in which--frs., Industry will be rendered
pleasing and attractive, and its occupations varied,
so that none may be crushed to the earth by the
tenn of Labor,-the fruit of human ignorance,-on
which the curse Of God rests and which drags the
Mass down into poverty, ignorance, and often into
vice and crime. Second, in which Stability will ex-
ist and fraud reachory and the present unregulated
action in Commerce and Industry be checked so that
these continual and terrible rcvcrses fortune which
now take place may be avoided. Third, in which
agreeable company pleasing social relations, and
occupations of elevated character in Art, Science
and practical purSuits, cor be secured to all-and
also an Education proper for such mode Of life.
In Associations attractive industrial, scientific and
artistic occupations during the day, and parties,
music. scientific lectures &c. during the evening
will be open to ALL and the richest and mos! varied
moral and intellectual enjoyments will be wtkin the
reach of every one. Men will make it their grand
aim and study widen the sphere of their spiritual
existence, and who can shy where thair efforts
will end? In such an order of things who would
seek dirty grog-shop or grocery, and swallow
down, brute-like, adultcrated and haf-pois onous
liquids to obtain false artificial and brutal ex-
citementl But then no grog-shops, no distilleries
would exist in Association; temptation would be
taken, as Christ recommends, out Of the way Of
men; but even if alcohol or opium were recalled
in Association, If there were persons who, greedy
for gain, were willing for the profit Of penny or
two per glass to sell poison their fellow men,
who would exchange the delight OF exalting mu-
sic, or the charms of brilliant party assem-
blage, for the excitement Of stupid drunkenness?
Society must crush and degrade Man fIightfuly
before he is prepared TO be an 1nebria'e. We
must have, fourth, Society in which Woman
fully developed and independent Wcman-wil ex-
crcise her refining and elevatng influence for to
her will be intrusled in Association the care of re-
tnement in habits, manners, language &c; at
present she cannot perform this high trust, be.
cause she is dependent, and because violence,
coarseness and brutality have obtained such pre-
ponderance in Society that she is powerless.-
Lastly; we must have Society in which broad
sphere for the action of the sentiments of exaaton
and enthusiasm iii Art, in Science, in great under
takings, and in concerts of Masses, will be thrown
open TO Man, SO that he will not be driven seek
false and artificial excitements.
1t will be declared probably, by majority OF
persons that Social Change canso, be Effected
y, A =. Gar.aeipu md
can never be established This is the mistake OF
timid minds. If the Leaders of the Temperance
Cause would take hold of Association prac-
sical means of improving, morally and materially,
the condition Of the Mass, they could carry it out
in very short time.
Intemperance hypochondria, suicide, insanity,
&C., take their rise in nearly the same causes, and
Reform which would reach eiec,ually one, would
reach nearly al of them. What pity that the
minds Of Men are not more enlarged, and free from
prejudice, so that they could see and comprehend
the necessity of vast Reform that would sweep
all these accumulated evils and miseries from the
earth. The signs, tears aud suf1srings of millions
plead for ii, but the microscopic eyes, and the con-
t.acted ambitions and habits of our Leaders-Po-
litical, scientific and literary-can only soe iaei
and labor for partial and one-s;ded Reforms, which
produce no real and permanent results and only
deepen the belief in the eternity of Evil spon the
Earth.
Human Happiness.
Human Happiness is not an Elusive chimera,
boon which can never be attained upon this Earth.
No-the elements of it are in and around us. All
veIone and employ them properly All Glasses