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be based upon large Associations of about
eighteen hundred persons or three hundred
families, and not upon small associations
Of six or eight individuals, or single fami-
lies.
The present state Of general isolation
and the separation Of all interests. which
are productive OF universal o.lflct and dis
trust. smother the social sympathies, and
break up nearly all social ties but one
the family tie or The tie of blood; and in
many cases even that of the family.
4th. The institutions and tendencies Of
the Associated or combined Order are in
perfect harmony with the highest concep-
tons Of truth, justice and love entertained
in theory by the world, and which are en-
bodied in the doctrines Of Christ. Associ-
alton will establish Christianity practically
upon Earth. 1t will make the love Of God
and the love Of the neighbor the greatest
desire, and thepractice of all men. Temp
tation to wrong will be taken from the path
of men, and a thousand perverted and de,
grading circumstances and influences will
be purged from the social world. So per.
fectly are the institutions Of the combined
order adapted to the human heart, and cal
culated to develop and expand the higher
sentiments, and to insure the practice Of
truth, that man in loving his neighbor as
himself, and doing towards him as he
would be done by, will secure his own good
and happiness. This is touched upon in
the chapter entitled, "Unity Of Interests"
(page 33) and in the chapters headed,
"Sacred Legion" and "Guarantee Of an
Ample suhicicncy," [pages 63 and Ga,
will be found descriptions Of institutions
corresponding TO and based upon some Of
the precepts Of Christ.
Christianity has been drafted upon and
developed in the antique Pagan Society
that is, the Greek and Roman Civilization,
which social organization, with slight SUI
perficlal notifications, has been continued
down the present time. and constitutes what
is called modern civilization. AS The Pa
gan Religion had mutiplicity'"of gods. so
thePagan Society had a multiplicity OF IN
terests, multiplicity Of households, with
different castles and classes, and was based
upon disorder and conflict, and sustained
by violence, injustice and oppression. The
unity Of the human race, the brotherhood
Of the human family, the equality of man
kind before God, and the law Of charity
and love, were proclaimed by Christ in an
era Of Pagan discord and universal snbver-
sion OF the law of right and truth; and
these great doctrines, for the first time an.
nounccd to the world, should have led to
the establishment of a new Social Order bv
the followers Of Christ, in which they could
have been realized in practice. But the
institutions Of the old Social World Of con-
lict, Of war, Of isolation, and discord, were
so strongly and deeply rooted that they
have as yet resisted the renova:ing doctrine
of the prophet Of Nazareth and the profess
ed Faith Of the Christian world.
The system Of Society propo1nded by
CHARLES FOURIER, and which we are now
laboring to realize in practice, is based up
on those laws OF orderand harmony which
govern the Universe, the divine laws Of
attraction and repulsion, the universally
of which and their application to the moral
government Of man, as we'll as the mocha
meal movement Of material things, were
first discovered by that great genius, Fou-
rier. This new Social Order will form a
new plane on which the highest truth can
securely rest, and upon which Christianity
can be fully and truly developed. Man
will there be surrounded by influences that
Will refine and elevate him to higher stan
dard Of excellence, and direct him rightly
in his earthly career. Then he will fulfil
his destiny. and accomplish the grand OBJ
Ject of his creation.