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We examined in our last article one OF tho ad-
vantag.s which would arise from taking Attraction
for our guide We showed that it was true guide
in Social matters and permanent revelation of the
will of the Divinity.
When the Sentiments. Passions or Attractions
which the Creator has placed in Man, are bar
moniously developed and rightly directed, they
impel him on to fulfil his true Destiny on Earth,
and reveal to him the will of the Creator who
made them; but, in the present state OF the tall
Of Man, thew are perverted and discordanty de.
veloped, and impel him to falseness and evil;
they are. consequently, false guides.
We will now examine some other advantages
which will arise from a harmonious development
of the moral and mental powers within Us, and
from taking the spontaneous Sentiments or At
fractions Of our nature for our guides, instead of
the Laws of Legislators ard the vacatpg whims
OF undeveoped Reason. We explained the first
advantage VIC viii continue the subject.)
p Economy Of Neans,-by employing means
which possesses the two-told property OF interpre-
tation and impulse; means which, while it stlr'u-
lates us to action, manifests to Us the will OF the
Divinity.
What idea does the world form Of the economy
of God, upon which it reason. so falsely? When
means exist, for performing double duty with
single agent, can suppose that God would
overlook this economy and prefer the coercive sys
TEN. which would occasion q double loss. He
would do so. had he chosen as his interpreter
Reason without Attraction. In this case, he would
be obliged to recur to civilized methods; that is
to CONSTANT, with its
Unproductive interpreters,
And refractory subjects.
In Politics and Legislation, we have at present
great many pretended interpreters of wisdom and
reason, but they have to support their wisdom by
jails scaaolds, and unproductve Army, without
which, Nations would not listen to their lessons of
wisdom. nor bear the load of evil which their sys-
TENS heap upon them.
Our theories, which confer or God the title of
Supreme Economist, show themselves devoid Of
meaning, when they suppose that he could have
results so enormous loss. 1t is perfectly easy for
him to adopt system of Attraction, from which
would flow all economy, all riches: he employs
visibly, this system in the direction of planets and
various industrial animals: can We suppose that
he would wish to exclude us froH, it?
g. Avoidance Of Constraint and c0ercloe
Measures of all hinds-of Courts Of Justice,
BailiGS, represSice Legislation. Prisons, Scat
folds, and other parasitic agents, to which the
barbarian and civilized Societies must resort In
order to maintain their false Social Institutions,
and their repugnant system Of Industry.
All these measures of constrant would become
useless from the moment that the Passions were
rightly developed and system of Attractive In
dus,ry was established. Can we doubt that we
are destined to such state of things in which
constralNt and violence will cease? AS pre-
sumptive evidence that we are, we have enly to
observe that G9d has created the earth no
means of constraint superior to the resistance
which Man can oppose We see upon our Globe
neither giants, cen,aurs, trons, any agents ca
bic of overpoweriug the armies of men, although
it would have been SO easy for God to create On
the land and in the sea beings Of colossal stature,
capsble of checking Man in case of rebellion his
views The absence of any creations OF the Kind,
proves that constraint does enter into the plans
of the Creator and that a Social Code coming
from Him viii be fully exempt from 1t.
If God did not possess the power OF distributing
Attraction as he wished, he would be obliged to
resort TO constlaint to carry OF the operations OF
the [ aiverse.-to create in the armament colossal
planets to control the smaller ones. and compel
Them 10 move with regularity in their orbits. he
would have to pursue the same SYSTEM on the
Garth and create beings OF gigantic species, like
the tabled monsters Of antiquity, sPhinHes, giants,
cenaurs, &C. in order to force men to exercise In
duslr, and to obey such a system as he wlsaed.
Carrying out the application OF the principle be
would also be obliged TO create huge bees TO force
the smaller ones to gather honey; and large
beavers to force the lesser 10 construct their
dams.
Still these colossal species night dsobey God, If,
il the execution Of tue duty assigned them, they were
not impelled by Attraction. God, consequently
would be obliged to employ attraction ruth some,
and constraint NTH others and use, knowingly.
Dupiicity in governing the Universe, when ne need
only employ Uuity BY subjecting all creation to AT,
trac1on which, in calling forth an atectlonate ana
willing submission, would form chaih OF flowers
| for all his creatures.
How cas we suppose that Being to whom we
attribute supreme Goodness and Economy, could
take pleasure in thus conpcating the social
mechanism, by employing Constraint' which re-
opires twice the number Of agents, and causes the
misfortune of the great majority How csula