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

Preiudices OF the w orId On inst ss &C in q on
(ContiHued
IL explained in the preceding article that Association
although deemed impossible between families, found
practicable and very advantageous financial, commerce a
aud industrial AssDcisOnsiist Is in Bank, Insurance
Companies Railroads Manuacto &c. A Bank a f.
nanc,a Association a. Railroad industrial Associd
ton The rapid prosperity OF this country IN pari 10 BE-
attributed 10 the facility with which Associations are formed
for the purpose Of building Railroads, Canals Manufactures
and Steamboats, OF working mines and carry ~ various
other enterprises In tact common roads our school
houses, churches public libraries. 6c are effects oi he
principle Of Association The great question Gan u
nc pie be applied agric utUre and the domestic system
Can Isolated families, with conflicting Interests be induced
to associate for ne purpose OF prosecuting 81 DraTh' u
agriculture manufactures and mechanic and for ehrc,ng
the colossal economies which would result from II; They
undoubtedly can, and nothing but habit and prejudice pit
vent people from seeing H.
Association, for the purpose Of prosecuting In
dustral and Commercial operations, Is conse-
qHeutly possible thing: to what extent can 1t be
carried out in Agriculture and Manufactures, and
above all, betwee. families in the Domestic
Organization, which, with lis system of separate
and isolated households, causes such ncalcuable
waste and expensel
From the preceding observations, we are led to
conclude that Associatisa is profitable only on It's
being applied to large number of persons; and
it is evident that, if the Creator has composed a
system for the Social Relations Of Man, he msst
have suited his system to large a.semblages or
asses,-wirh their Social Relations so organized
as to find in their Union, guarantees of practical
Truth and faithful Management.
The intentions of Providence towards Man have
elected a variety of opinions more or less rreye
rent: some, from superstition believe that we are
condemned to priyations in this life; others. from
philosophy, that We are destined to a limited de-
gree of Happiness; hence it arises that ;he idea
of a Social Code or a Social Order, productive VI
results truly worthy of the cr-that Is 10 say
infinite in generosity and magnihcence, as the de-
scrptions of Association will show, Is proclaimed
visionary and impossible.
The vanity of the Learned, vito have usurped the
domain of human Intelligence would be shocked by
such ad ssion: to acknow ledge that Association
is possible and that its mechanism should be an OBJ
ect OF study, would he to acknowledge that Cyil'za
lion is a false system of Society, and that their IN
coherent systems are theories OF false Order, which
would sink into contempt from the moment that any
means could be shown of realizing Association
hence it arises that this most important study will
probably be opposed by the Literary and Scientific
Oracles of the day, because they see the danger OF
not succeeding in it, and of wasting useessy their
efforts on difficult problem, which would open
the way to an attack upon their fayorlte systems
If isolated Families, free Competition and lndi-
vdualism.
Religion, ON the other hand, Involuntary lends
them her aid: she breaches, and truly breaches
that We should be content with itle IN the present
state. and dsdain the goods of this world, since
of Mankind must be necessarily de-
prived of them. Its Ministers, in advancing this
tbot, his fat nt PoNprtV a
limited to the Savage, Patriarchal, Barbarian and
Civilized Social Orders, which are four false So
cietiss that mark the Social Infancy of the human
Race Looking upon these Societies as the ire
vocabe Destiny of Man--as a condition OF EVIL
without remedy they coincide with Philosophers
in the opinion that ii is necessary to be content
with little, neglect all perspeciives OF immense
fortune and of general happiness and this opinion
i equivalent to a neglect of the study OF Social
Order which would realize them. In giving TINS
advice, however, it is with the intention OF CON
selling Mankind in their present state oi suheri"g'
for which they see no remedy; whereas tho nesiect
If the study Of Association by the Scientific World
is OWN. to a preposscssion in favor OF existing
taeories, or to II misplaced vanity
We will here point out one or two OF Tie most
plausible error. which have been committed, aud
the Inconsistency Of those who have accredited
them; these are:
|. Inference drawn from small obstacle to a
larger one.
III. Dazzling contrast between Evil and Good.
Inference draun from a small obstacle 10
larger one: Since it is impossible to associate
two three or four families, even ten to twelve,
the conclusion has been drawn that II would be
still moro impossible TO associate two or three
hundred.
The world, in this opinion, may be compared TO
the timid mariners, who before Christopher Co
unbus, dared not advance more than SIN or eight
hundred miles into the Atlantic and who returned
dismaycd. declaring that this ocean was an endless
waste and that 1t was madness TO venture upon It.
Had some boder navigator extended hls voyage
twelve or fifteen hundred miles without hGding
America, it would have been declared that the
hypothesis Of a new continent was without iouh-
dation. If AT length vessel, with still more
iemcrity, had advanced westward twenty-five or
thirty hundred miles. it would also have returned
without success, aud in that case the existence oi
a rev continent would have been declared IA wild
chmera: however to succeed it was only ueces-
sarv 70 persist. push onward and proceed n few
hundred miles farther.
Such was the method to tie followed in the study
of Association ltrequrcd no other ef-rt OF genius
than to pcrsevere, go and not be discouraged by
the failure OF small trials but to contlnue-gradua!
increasing them. II trials with four families failed
we should have tried eight failing with eight. W.
should have tried sixteen failing with sixteen, we
should have tried ,hirty-wo; then siNty-iour. Ar
rived At this point, success would nave followed
provided the mechanism of the Groups and Series
which is the true Law of Association was dis
covercd--which discovery is easy when trials are
made with three hundred aud fifty or ioIr nun
drcd persons.
Sbort-sighed Politicians, who thought they
were acting wisely il speculatng on small assem-
blagcs of fifteen or twenty families, have fallen
into a double error:
lst In taking IN = small number which neither