New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-14

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Practical Organization OF Association.
We commence to-day description Of the prac
rica Organization Of Association; and recon-
mend to those who wish clear idea Of our system
to follow the articles rs they will form consecutive
series We i'll show how all the adv anta.os which
VIC have sented a. sing from s,ociation can
be- attained how Industry can be rendered At
rRAcTWr, -indiSiduaI Liberryprsser,cd aud vastly
extended, and how all occupations which are EOw
repugnant and offensive can be performed, and de-
nestle services rendered without degrading any.
The proper number of persons for an Association
i, eighteen hundred or two ,h0usand or II we sup
pose from six to seven persons to a family, about
three hundred families. This number is not fixed
upon arbitrarily but is based upon the number Of
different characters which We find in men. and the
variety Of element, necessary to form Social lIar
mony. The member should be Of all ages and
characters of different degrees Of fortune and
should possess varied practical and theoretical
,nowlcdge. A Diversity in all these respects
should exist; this Diversity, instead Of Offering an
obstacle to Association, ID a niece ssary condition.
It would be impossible to associate two thousand
persons of the same tastes and characters. True
Equality does not consist in Uniformity, bat in the
harmony of a variety Of elements.
A practical trial a small scale could be made
with four hundred persons, or eighty families.
rhi, is the smallest number with which Industry
can be rendered ATTRACTIvE,-a great variety OF
occupations suited to both sexes and to different
age, and inclination- established and choice OF
sympathctic characters and varied Social relations
offered to all -Four hundred consequently, is the
smallest number with which Association-con
bining the above advantage be established
An Association of thirty or forty families or two
hundred persons could be organized which could
be made very profitable, and in which the condition
Of the people could be improved much over what IT
now is, but it would only be an improvement OF the
present system The number is too small to adj
nit Of Industry being rendered attractive, and ot
offering to the member. that variety Of occupations
and company which Man requires. In small Asso'
Citations. monotony, uniformity aud often constant
contact Of antipathies or uncOngenlal characters
must exist, In large Associations, there can be va
riery in every respect, and among large number
of persons. every one can find beings with whom
he sympa,hses, 50 that it will not be necessary in
to satisfy his Social nature to minge with per-
sons who are not of a consenisl character
We have other and philosophical reasons why A.
ISOLATION cannot succeed with small number OF per-
sons which we will explain later. We will merely |
say at present that it is with Association az with
Music; we cauno, have musical harmony with three
or four notes. although we can with three OF four
hundred So with Association or Social Harmony
with small number OF three or four or ten or twelve
families, nothing can be DONE while with eighty
families. or four hundred persons, success would
be easy. In taking certain numbers We do not do
arbitrarily; we have always reason for IT, based
upon fixed and natural Laws.
We must net suppose that Associations Is new
principle. entirely separated from all that exists
every thing in our present Societies is based upon
or done hy Association. single family Is an AS'o-
citation but it is the smallest which can eNlN: A.
il i, single couple with their children III S'Pa-
rate house BY themselves. clearinghouse OF
a Hotel il an Association; Bank, IA haiiroGd OF
an Insurance Company is an Association. but more
Or les. imperfect and incomplete. An Army Il
also an Associa,ion,-hut for the purpose OF car
mage and destruction. To avoid entirely the Prln-
ciplc of Association, We must suppose an ihoi-
vidusl living alone in an uninhablted region
Without Association, Man is weak and miserable;
i, is onv by Association that he becomes powerful
aud can render fhapPy Our Road bridges,
School. Houses, Churches and most oi our Internal
improvements are the work of Association; nothing
Great and important can be- done without II. The
nrincnle. therefore must be admitted good IN "
self; but it must be univcrsalizcd and made to en-
brace al Interests and large number of iam'lies
An isolated family is like a Bank, an incomplete
aud imperfect Association,
Small Associations ale defective; they are iu'i
of waste, discord and monoiony. ccannst nave
harmony without a variety of elements. lhc $50
lated family is as we remarked, the smallest A''o'
citation that can exist; it Is, therefore, the most de-
teciivc II we examine the Social liie oil iaiiiies-
and poor-wc shall find that ia four cases
out of FIVE there is more or less di'cord Oh "'S>NS
faction. arising either from monoiony, from "aht
oc a variety of occupations suited to the tastes oi
5;1,rou, members. from constant contact OF anti
pathetic characters, OF other causes '"'"''
Association produces Waste, Di'cord' Moho'o"s'
and offer. very hule variety OF Occupations a"u
soc; Relations. it is not eyiden, that large Asso-
citation. will produce Economy Harmony ana va
rie,y and throw open to ali multiplicity .. Pun,
suits in Art. Science and lndustry, and broad
field al Social Relations.
Our present Societies are based upon s''i'' -
,ociations or Isolated Families, with separate anu
opposing interests; they all in conflict Win,
and the majority prcying upon, detraudi"s ana