New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-11
The Passious.

Bniae".
We endeayored to explain away in our last arti-
Gle the mistaken idea that Suffering il the Lot and
Destiny Of Man upon this Earth. Another objection
which constantly urged against A>sociaiioni> tina,
the Passions are bad-that they are in.urrupunta.e
obstacles. that Order and Harmony cannot come
out Of tlIcm,-aud that if W. hope 70 establish
Society upon the Earth in which Truth and Justice
will exist, the nature of Man must be entirely
changed, or a new Being created. Let u. show
the Galsene.s of this belief
The Passions appear at present, it j.. true de-
PRAYED and yieious,-kc tigers lct loosc.-bst II,
j. because they are all falsely Developed outraged
violated and INSTRUCTED by our false Societies
which en,ucv unsuited to them. The
Passions are nevertheless, in themselves good;
they we're given to Us by God for wise and useful
ends. and they will-if we can discover and or
game system Of Society which j, adapted TO
them, and in which they can act and deyclopc
themselves according to their true nlturc-producc
a. much Good as they now cngcnder Evil.
A great mistake has been committed in sup
posing that Envy, Jealousy, Revenge, &c. arr
true and original Passions in Man. THEY are
not, -hcy are percersioas or taise developments
Of certain trUc ami origiRsi PaSuons Tho
great error into which the World has fallen, Is 10
have COMPOUNDED tac perverted Developments
which the Passions receive in our false Societies,
v,th hei, real essence AMI true n0tUre The
bad effects Of the Pas have been mistaken for
the Passions themselves. To make Of Man good
and noble being have not to change the Passions,
but merely to change therPrcseat false perverted
| Development.
We have difficult subject to explain, and in a
short space we must be very concise, and We there
fore claim the particular attention of the header
So little are the Passions understood that it has not
been discovered that they are capable OF a doubic |
Actt0n OF of t,ro NOTES If Developments one Of
which ia true the other false, one tending to llar-
mony, the other to D'cord. When the Pa. sion, /
are rightly developed, they produce Order. jus I
ticc and Nrtue; when they are falsely developed |
they produce Dupiciiy, Injustice, Vice and Crime
The Passions are in both cases the same; II ,s
their Effects only which are changed. This |
two-fold mode of development may be termed /
scientifically Duality Of Moremcs', aud the HUI
man Passions like every thing else in Nature, are /
subject to this great Law. We will remark here /
that the Feelings, Sentiments, Desires and Instincts
in Man are branches shades of the Passions.
The Passions are the Springs of Action I'm
peling Powers within us,-,he cause of all our
Acts and of the larger portion Of our Thoughts
Hence ii is so important to understand their ma
tuIc. Four false Societies have existed on the /
Earh,--tAe Savage Pairiarchal Barbarian and
Civilized in all these Societies the Passions have
been perry rted, so that the World has only seen' |
up to the present time, their false Action or De-
vclopment and it has concluded III consequence
tina, they were naturally ara inherently dePravcd.
The great Truth has been discovered, and II no"
remains To be made known, that true Social Or-
der, suited to the Passions, can be established and
that the Passions in this Social Order Will ic-
ceive true and harmonious development, and pro- |.
duce a. many good effects as they have heretofore
eugendered evil ones.
We will illustrate this double Action of the
Passions by single example, which VIII explain
it clearly We will remark, before 50 doing, that
every thing in Nature il subject this double
Action or to the Law of Duality of Movement.
Our bodies for instance, capable OF pain AL
pleasure, of action and repose, of organic life and
putretaction.
We find the simplest and plaucst Illustration in
Music.-irom which we will take oui example,
The notes Of Music arc, rs We know, in Themselves
good and perfect No Musician would wish to or
could change them but the notes Of Music may
produce discords as we'll "a hurmonies they
capable consequently OF two modes Of action. Ii
irl,
monies,-if falsely, they produce discords. Ih'
notes remain in both cases the same they are I'm
chapgcd II is their effects oHiy trhich are changcd
What is true Of Music is true of the Passions
| The Social System or Organization holds to the
Passions the same relation that the Musician holds
to the notes Of the former are the clements
Of Social Harmony as the latter are the elements o
| Musical HARMONY If an unskilItul Musician pro-
| ducc. discord. We do not blame the notes, and ac-
cusc them of being naturally discordant; We scpa-
rate the di.cord. from the notes ami blame the
| Musician. We ,hoHld be impartial towards
the Passions If false system OF Society per
yerts them. and derangc> their true and natural
action, as does our present false Social Order ne
should separate The bad cGects. lrhich they then
produce from the Passions HemSelres or from
heir nature, and The Society rIich Pcrreris item.
This impartialily the World does not exercise.
Not knowing that the Passions are capable Of two
modes of action, 1t supposes that their present
false development is their true one; it throws in
consequence all the blamc upon them and excu-
na,c. our false Societies. Ii LOOKS upon the
rr,,ent Social Order as good and Human Nature
qucncc to reform Man instead OF reforming i'm