New-York daily tribune., 1842-08-03
gEw.YoaK. WEDNESDAY MeRsHNG. AUGUST 3, L
ASS OCIATION;
riaeiples OF True Organization of Society.

ASSOCIATION;
On, Principles OF True Organization OF Society.
r The description and plans Of the buildings OF an As
socation are deferred until tomorrow account OF The
i space taken up by the foreign news
Tendency Of the World 80 Associatien.
What is an Associ.tioul 1t is union of one
CT two hundred families, who carry on upon 8
large and economical scale their domestic affairs,
instead of having hundred or two separate house
holds a. at present, which are so expensive, and
the supervision Of which causes SO much trouble.
A single family is an Association, but it is the
smallest one which can exist,-being Associa-
ton of single couple with their children in q
separate house by themselves. This small Asso-
citation is in great majority of cases discordant,
because there Is constant contact of antipathetc
characters. because there is not choice of occu-
pations and alterations Of the same; because the
women are forced to become housekeepers wheH
large majority dislike it; because the pursuits
of Industry the occupation of the Arts and Sci
ences and the pleasures of social life not con-
nected because there is monotony land the sphere
of action is too narrow and restricted ter the re-
ouirements of human nature-and because there
arc waste, complication and vexatious cares.
Now, we propose large Association, in which
all these defects could be avoided it would be
tanited like family, where there is perfect har-
mony: it would in fact be large household, q
domestic establishment, based upon scientific prin-
ciples: it would be an extension OF the present
household from six or eight persons or single
couple to two thousand persons.
AS Man ha. enlarged, extended and organized
on scientific principles other departments OF socl-
ety. why cannot he do as much for the household or
domestic system
In the Savage period, Commerce, Industry,
Navigation and the Arts and Sciences are in as
rude state as the household organization. All
these branches or elements of the Social order are
in a simple and undevcloped condition. But in
the later Societies. which Man has organized, while
gigantic Developments have been give to the
above mentioned departments the household sys-
tenn has been left in its originally rude, con-
trected and imperfect state.
Man has replaced the frail canoe by the steam
ship; the weakness of his hands by powerful ma
| chinerv the bow and arrow by the rifle; the foot
path by the Railroad; he has raised himself from
primitive ignorance to knowledge of Astronomy,
Mathematics, Chemistry, and other important
sciences-he has done all this, but he has not dis
covered Association true system OF Society
he has suffered the isolated household or the little
domestic association to remain precisely as IT
was in the Savage State As populatioe has In
creased, towns and cities have been built, which
are merely repetitions of isolated households,
but no method of associasing families or masses,
which is the great object to be attained, has been
covered.
Association will give to the household or domes-
! tic Organization, that extension which has been
given to Commerce, Navi CATION, Machinery and
some of the other elements OF society: 1t VIII do
for the Social world what the Mariners Compass
did for Navigation the Telescope tor Astronomy
or Steam for Machinery
The reform we advocate follows in the natural
order of things; if Man has extended his social,
commercial and political relations from the narrow
circle of the savage horde to the entire Globe,-
if he has extended navigation from the rude canoe
to the Notwithstanding from the foot path
te the railroad can he not extend his domestic
system from the isolated household with Its small
number of members, to large Association OF two
thousand Persons, Both Reason and Science
will answer that he can and that Association would
be Progress perfectly in keeping with the pro-
gress which has taken place IN the other branches
of which we have spoken.
The Principle of Association is not new IN the
world; it has already received an extensive aPPll-
cation in the practical affairs OF Men, which affords
us additional grounds for believing that it may be
extended to the social and domestic relations of
Men. Wherever great Economies and Power have
been desired, it hns naturally been resorted 10 in
all ages If space permitted numberless and stri-
king exhibitions Of its utility could be cited, even
| in domestic relations. In our own country, some
very imperfect Associations exist, which prove at
least. that the principle of Association is only me-
cessary for Men TO provide themselves with all
their physical wants. They prove more. They
prove that by it crime is abolished, for it IS not
known in those societies and if vice exists, and
real happiness is not attained in them, 1t ls be-
cause false, tyrannical, and unnatural conditions
are connected with these societies, and not because
the principle of Association is detective Monas-
teres Hospitals, Hotels, &C., also present striking
Illustrations of the economies OF Association.
In the Savage State, we see Man IN ell MS indi-
vidual weakness. The only object of the Savage
Horde is to secure physical existence there is
no combination or association to execute works OF
general or permanent utility In later and more
advanced societies, however, such combination and
association exist, and it marks immense pro-
sress over isolated individual effort. People
establish governments, and combine to support
them, which is political Association. They
unite to make roads erect churches, build school
houses, asyums and hospitals, to construct works
of internal Improvement, &c.
The principle of Association has received an i'm
portant extension during the last century, and has
L.. ..nl;ad to financial nner tons internal I'M