New-York daily tribune., 1842-10-07
spread of the Doctrine of Association.

We are happy To inform our friends here and in
Europe, that the Doctrine of Association is spread
ing with rapidity in the United States. Numbers
Of persons in every part of our extensive Country
have been gained c the Cause, and are propagatng
Eliminated by an ardent faith that practical means
arc at last discovered for remedying the numerous
Evils which exist, and of elevating and improving
the condition of the People Several Societies.
similar to the existing in this City-the object
of which is to spread the Doctrine by Lectures and
other mcans-havc been formed in different States;
quite number of papers-over forty, we think
are favorable to our principles, and frequently re-
publish our articles. But the most important sign
of the progress which the grand and noble Doctrine
of Association and of Union and Concert of Action
among Men, is making, and which is destined to re-
place the present system of Isolation, universal OPP
position, or war in Trade and Labor and ruineus
Competition, is the large numter of Associations
which are starting into existence in different parts
of the Country. But year or two since, Asso-
citation was hardly thought of, and now the feeling
for it is working SO strongly in Men that it is be-
ginning to produce important external and prac-
tical results.
The following Associations have been founded :
One at Roxbury, Mass, under the direction OF the
Rev. George Ripley, which took the lead second
one at Mendon, Mass, under the direction of the
Rev. Adm Baou; third at Northampton, Mass,
under the direction of Professor Adams a fourth
in PENNSYLVANIA, by body of Germans, under the
guidance of MIR. Ginal, German Divine ;--they
have obtained tract Of 81 900 acres Of land, and
arc going on very successfully: they have mills in
we arc informed advanced 100 per cent. since the
first day of last January. In Brooklyn, our friends,
under the direction of Mr.. Little and some other
gentlemen, have decided upon commencing prac-
teal operations, and have made arrangements for
trac, of land of 5000 acres in Pennsylvania.
Efforts are also making in other quarters to organ
izc Associations, which will, without doubt pro-
duco results in the course of the year.
These Associations have commenced with
moderate means, and are consequently incom-
plete, but they are all successful.
People are becoming sick and disguised with
the present systcm of envious and ruinous Com
petition, and Of universal Opposition, Antagonist
and Disrust, in which every mans hand is raised
against his neig ghbor, and in which each individual
is striving to forward his interests at the expense
of all others around him. The old prejudice that
men must live separate, each in his own house, as
if they savage animals, is giving way and a
feeling for association, for concert OF action, for
reciprocal aid and good will, is beginning warm
mems souls, and offer the prospect of a better and
happier fortune than the miserable past and
pre- sent, in which all is and has been uncertainty,
revusions, ruin and disappointment.
If we-wth the aid of the grand discovery Of
Fourier-were not able to convince men of the i'm
mense superiority Of Associaticn and the vast bene-
Gts-moraI and intellectual, as well worldly
which it would confer upon them, a few years more
of isolated and iacoherent exertion of relentless,
envious and iendish competition, with the poverty
to which it reduces the Laboring Glasses, and the
horrible sehshness, spirit of disobligingness and
an,ipa,hy to which it gives rise, will convince Men
practically of it, and they will flee to Association
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