New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-04

always remain so. Another oh lection Is, that HUI
man Nature or the Passions inherently vicious
and depraved, and that Order and Harmony cannot
come ont of them. We must answer these OBJ
! icctions show the faseGess, or rather mistake
of popular belief upon thi. subject, end explain why
people entertain such views. We will commence
with an article which we take from FOURIER, and
which will occupy two or three columns. HIS re-
marks are clear and simple while profoundly
true and combine the most practical colnnon
sense ith the highest thought
Prejudices efthe w orld against Associ alton
The Doctrine Of Association, which give TO the
World will no doubt be assaulted in various quar-
tiers, and by all those who advocate the Social
Forms and PreiudIccs which they find existing
around them. and to which time has given sanction
and stability. To such we have but one answer to
make-Let them produce a beHer system. lhi-
i, the first, which has appeared, that treats the
subject of Association scientifically: IT calls into
existence Science which past A.es have neglected
or deemed mpracticabe OF impossible: it proposes
clear and distinct system Of Association never he
fore discovered Tie series Of c0ntrGsled groups
directed by he combined action Of the three Die
fr,butire Passions. I'VE will explain this me-
chansm later; we will merely say here that it will
lead to Attractive Industry and Harmony Of the
Passions0 If this System be defectiye-and of
this we cannot Judge until trial ha. been made
Science should NOT that account, be excused
from discovering better.
This Doctrine, however proves that Science has
not performed its duty of general exploration and
that, with its assertions of impessibility and i'm
practicabity it has passed over two very impor-
tant ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PAssIoSAL At
TRACTION. (Pas.ional Attraction comprises the
system of Laws by which the action of the Pas
sons i. governed and rcgulated) These studies
were no, more difficult than many others. since
Man. without the aid of any preceding researches
on the subject has treated both problems and solved
them. Until experience shall have tested his method
better one should either be discovered or ira made
of the only one which has been produced. That
Association-ths art, the only means of enriching
Nation.-was neglected by the Ancients, Is not
surprising, as they paid very little attention to the
subject of national Wealth, and as the Institution of
Slavery opposed an almost invincible obstacle TO
practical trials in combined or associated industry;
but that the present active IN search
ing out new means of acquiring Riches should have
neglected such trials, and should have hesitated to
proclaim agricultural and domestic Association to
be- the principal, nay, the only road to collective
Riches,-s blindness truly marvellous.
Th. neglect seems the greater and more shame
full because obstacles, which arise from the slavery
Of the sultivator Of the soil do not now exist in
most civilized countries Our Men OF Scence
found Slavery abolished, and that abolition was
most important preliminary to attempts at the
ORGANIZATION of II system OF combined Industry.
Industry is now carried on in Nm incoherent and
n;ccemeal manner by isolated families, between
whom there is no union concert or association.)
The minds of Political Economists must be
strangely nisdirected and devoid OF inventive
genius or good intentions. if. from the moment
Tint the Cultivator or Laborcr is free, and trials
can be made Of combinations, in numbers ct 1OO,
1000. 1900. they seek elsewhere for the means OF
collective Riches, than ia Association.
The sole answer which they make, is tie follow
ing obiection--a prejudice which has at oil times
prevented researches in Associaiion;-" Ii j. I'M
nossibe TO associate two or three families without
the breoking out of dscord at the end of a week.
particularly among the females: what folly then,
!. il 10 attempt to associate two or three hundred
This objection, which at first appears reasonable
ia the hight of folly; and to prove its want OF ounda
ZION by single fact, We need but remark, that as
great Economies cnn only be realized in large as
.cmblages and not at all in small ones the Creator
must have destined Man for Association, and COM
| posed his plan of Association tor large number OF
pcrsons,-.ay two thousand, or two or three hun
dr-d families, and not at all for two or three,
which from .mallness Of number and insuhclency
of efforts, would not raise the profits OF Association
to the thrtieth part of what they would be- IN
uuien of from fifteen hundred TO two thousand i'll
| dviduals.
Therefore. unless we suppose the Creator de-
priyed of di,cerRment, we must adopt it as u Prin-
ciple, that hi. plan is applicable only to large Asso-
Citations; and that if We know of no means of
assocatng two or three families, 1t IS an hdica-
ton which should lead US TO conclude, as Economy
and Reason would dictate, that he has composed
hi. Social theory for large and not Tor u small
number. This objection has not been made by
our imid Theorists they have suffered themselves
10 &c discouraged by an apparent obstacle, which II
duly weighed, ought rather have sustained their
hopes.