New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-09
social Chaos OF the Globe.
| Extract from FouslEk,s Flrs, work. publl.hed N

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Social Chaos Of the Globe.
Extract from FouRlERs First Work, published l8osl
Politicians, Philosophers aud MoraIists who pre-
tend to labor for the happiness of Mankind, do you
think that Six Hundred Millions Of Barbariens and
Savages do not form part of the Human Race
They suffer; and what have you done for them
Nothing. Your systems applicable only te our
Civilized Societies, the disorder of which is IN
creased as soon as they are put in practice but il
yen possessed the of rendering Civilized Nations
happy, do you think that you vould fulfil the views
OF God in wishing 20 limit happiness to them, who
occupy but the smallest part of the Globe
God sees in the Human Race but one great
Family, all the members of which have a right to
his favos He designs that they shall al! be happy
together, or else no one People shall enjoy happi-
ness.
To forward the views OF God you should have
sought to discover Social Order applicable to the
entire Human Race, aud not to few Nations. The
immense majority of Barbarians and Savages (they
form three four,lls of the population Of the Earth;
the civilians or cicilizees form but quarter should
have shown you that you could only polish and
civize thsm by an Attractive System OF Society.
and not by Constraint.
So far from ciyilizing and uniting the Human
Race, your doctrines and customs excite the
part of Barbariaas a profound contempt, and are
execrated by the fee Savage, whose biterest curse
to an enemy is, "thut lie may be reduced 10 The
drudgery Of rspugnant Labor. These iEapre-
led rf
Nature herself yes our rcpugnant and degrading
system Of civilized Industry is condemned by Ma
ture, inasmuch as it is abhorred by free and inde-
pendent Races. who would engage in it at once, If
r were suited to the Attractions and Passions of
Man.
God has not permitted this repugnant and alb
horrent System of Industry to make any great pro-
gress, or to extend over the entire Globe; it ha,
been confined to few regions in Asia Europe and
America where masses OF INDECENT Laborcrs are
collected, who will serve n corps of reserve for
instructing Nations in the art Of Industry, when
true Social Order based upon Attractive Industry,
is established.
If Industry has progressed in Europe, it has met
with very different fate in the vast regions of
Asia; if Civilization has in modern times gained
footing in America, ii has been smothered in the
ruins Of the mighty Empires Of An,iquity,--in
Egypt, Greece, Asia Minor, Carthage, Chadea,
and large part Of Western Asia. Industry has
been driven from many of the most genial clime5-
such as that of Bactriana where it had begun to
flourish. The Empire of Samarkand, once cele-
brated in the East, and all the regions which
tend from the Oxus TO the mouths of the Indus,
have followed u retrogradc movement and rclapsed
into the primitive stale of the wandering tribes.
The hordes or wandering tribes are encroaching
moro and more on the industrious parts Of Asia
and devastating them, and arc extending beyond
their natural barrier, which is the chain of noun
tains that stretches from Bucharia to China. Even
China is sensibly declining; the mixture of Tar
tars has introduced spirit OF relrogradaton, and
immense territories are Few occupiad by wander
ing hordes. Thus Asia, the vast Asia, is tending
ON all sides to abandon Industry.
This tendency Of Nations, worn out By rcpug-
nanl Industry and misery, to dissolve into hordes,
should make the following problem the primary
one Of political science Find a Social order
which will secure to tho Laboring Mass SO much
comfort that they will prefer the pursuits of Indus
try to Idleness or rowing spirit OF plunder.
Civilized Nations! while Barbarians, deprived
Of your knowledge, know how TO maintain for
several thousand years their Societies and their
institutions, why are yours destroyed soon ard
eflen in the same century that brought them forth
You have always deplored the fragility OF youi
works and the cruelty of Nature, which overthro'ss
so soon the wonders of Civilization Cease to at
tribute to time ard to hazard these overthrows
they are the effect Of Divine vengeance against
yeur criminal Societies., which do nst secure to
Man the means of existence and comfort. 1t Is
to bring you TO avowel of your ignorance that
Nature overthrows your Empires. and bures them
in ruins
Let me be for a moment the echo of your polit
cal eleges what have become OF the monuments
of civilized pride Are not Thebes and Babylon,
Athens and Carthage transformed into heaps Of
rubbish! and what representation for London
and Paris and fer those modern Empires whose
mercantile strife and madness already oppress
Reason as they do Nature Tired OF eur So
cieties, she overwheims them after another,
and derides without distinction pretended yir-
tues and our crimes: laws reputed as oracles Of
wisdom, and the ephemeral codes OF political