New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-28
Religious Foundation Of Association.

ne PASSIONS. Attractions, Instincts and Feelings
which we find in Man are the springs Of action
the impelling powers within him. the cause of all
his acts and deeds. They are the elements OF
parts OF the human mechanism springs and
wheels are the elements parts OF common
machine. God, before creating Man and giving
him Passions must have adapted them to a system
of Society, pre-existng in his Intelligence, aud in
which they would be usefilly employed and rightly
directed the same a rnachins, has plan OF a
machine in his mind before lac makes the springs.
wheels, &C., that are to work in it.
Our present systems Of Society false they
are the work OF human Legislator, and Politicians
they are entirely unsutcd to tho Passions, the
natural action of which il violated and dcranged
by them The consequence is, that the Passions
cannot act according TO their true nature bot are
perverted and instructed, and produce Discord,
Vice, Crime and oiher dcpra,od effects.
We must reform our imperfect Societies We
must discover the Social Order predestincd for
Man by God, and replace those Societies by it.
This j. what FOURIER has done; he has not pro-
posed any plan OF scheme OF his own: he has, by
u patient study Of Human Nature and its tendon
man might discover the plan Of machine by ex-
aiming carefully the springs and wheels belong
ng to it.
| The Providence Of God is universal; it extends to
the intellectual or moral, well the material
| world. He has more given us. less Passions
and Faculties, than he has given useless bones
and muscles. Why then, it will be asked, do the
Passions produce so much discord, such depravcd
resultsl We will answer the question BY a com.
parison. As the body, when subjected to a false
mode of living, becomes deranged and engendcrs
a variety of diseases, so the Passions, when sub
jected to false Society, become perverted, and
produce Dscords, Vice and Crime. They then
| appear dcpravcd and vicious, but the evil is not
original naturai in them; it is merely per-
ccrsion. We must not look upon such false emo
tions as Hatred, Envy, Jealousy, Revenge, Despair,
original Passions they perverted Effects
diseases Of the Passions, as Gout, Rheumatism,
Scrofula, Cancers, Consumption, are diseases OF
the body.
We will quote the spirit of some remarks b!
FOURIER, which are aimporant, and which We
particularly recommend.
The idea of pre-es,ablished Destiny, of n So
cia System suited to the Passions, and preexist-
ing in the mind of the Divinity before the creation
of the Human Race, has no; been conceived by the
Scientific of the World.
Nevertheless how is it possible to conceive that
Being infinitely wise could have created our
Passions without having first determined upon
their employment Could the Creator have placed
the Human Race upon the Earth without providing
for their first grea, want-tlal OF system for the
regulation of their Passions and Social Relations
Under the direction of our pretended Sases' the
Passions engcnder Scourges, which would make us
doubt whether they are the work OF an Evil SPIRIT
or of the Divinity Try successfully the Laws OF
men mos, revered OF Scion or a Draco, oi
Lvcurgus or Minos, and YOU will hnd that they
constant, reproduce the numerous Scourges and
Evils which accompany the false development of
the Passions. Must not God have foresecn thu
shameful result of Human Legislation lie must
have known. before making and giving us Passions,
that human Reason would be incapable OF har-
monizius them. and that Mankind would require
Legislator wiser than themselves
There must consequently, exist for ia a pre-
established Destiny,-a system for the regulation
Of our Social and Industrial Relations, fixed upon
nv God before creating and giving Us I ssions.
The task of Human Reason is to search for TIM
Divine Social system, instead OF making arbitrary
Law. and Institutions of its own.
This is what FOURIER has done; lac has not
given US any Social System OF his own invention I;
he has by patient study OF the Passions and iiu'
man Nature. discovered the System OF Socisiy pre-
destined for Man. and to which the Passions were
ada.tcd. If FOURIER has not discovered the truc
or natural system OF Society, then We must com
mence searching anew, and not content ourselves
with plans and schemes OF Human invention.
Another proof in favor of a pre-established Sys-
ten: how can we suppose God more mp uden'
than the verest novice in mechanics "heh
mnn collects materials for building. does he fan To
Ike plan for their employment What would
we think Of Il person who, purchasing cut.sioue'
framework and materials of every Kind Tor the
construction of a vast ediiice did not know what
kind of n building he intended to erect, ana ac-
knowlcdeed that he had collected all these ma
erial, without having thought OF the use 10 whloh
he shoald apply them Such man would b. pro-
nouncci insane. "
Such. nevertheless is the want OF foresight WINCH
our Men of Science attribute to the DIVINITY IN sup
.o,ing tina, he could have created the Passions
attractions, Characters, Instincts and other ma
,e,iols Of the Social Edifcc, WITHOUT HAVING
FIXED uPoN ANY PLAN FOR THrR EMrLofNENl'
We cannot suspect the DIVINITY OF 'uch want
of f,r.sigh,; we therefore must believe that true
mr. natural system of Society which ric-oN's,ed III
tbe mind of God before the creation OF our Ulooe'
-. "a no di.coycIed.-thc Laws Of which
u"rn,n Reason should have cndeayored 10 search
~, instead Of prcsumng, Tiiau-hke, TO set up IT.
own in their place ...:,-.;.,,,.,
Prejudice which suspects the Divinity. OF having
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