New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-13
THE TRIBU n E.
Scsial StieRce,
rFtcm the friends of .Association.l

TFfcm the friends of .ASsociation.]
We commend to all the readers of The tribune
and especially to the Religious World the peau'.-
f,I and comprehensive description OF an 1851
cation, from the pen of the learned anu - p'o.
found Editor Of The London f"a'dn.' i'c''
DonEgrY, Esq. 1t must be borne IN i.'i''u
,b,, the view cortemplates an Association III
high state Of perfection, both IN ITS mora anu nd
,cr;,, .snsc,s when Mankind shall have been
morally and physically renovated by INC i,hu-
.,coo &c universal Abundance, universal bduca-
ton. and universal industrial, moral ana religious
training upon successive generations. IL IS al
abstract and scientific description OF what VIII DC
IN time. not of what can be realized immedia'eiy.
n our writings upon the subject of Association
,ye have scrupulouSiv avoided the use OF scehtlhc
and technical terms, that we might adapt 1t 10
nopular understanding in as great degree as
POSSIBLE, Our friends in Europe, who address
themselves to different public and aim to enlist
the learned and enlightened classes, who alone
are nowerfll there, treat Association more sclcn-
,;6cay and With css regard to technical terms
and il NAV be necessary TO explain some which
occur in the present article. A Group-as we
have before cxplained-means d company or band
of individuals united from identity OF interests
ability TO perform, and sympathy OF tastes or
preferences in the prosecution OF any branch OIL
Industry. Science or Art; and may be compared
n = military or Fire Company. in its organ
;zatio,. A Series Is q .luuber Of Groups leagucd
togethcr, and forming large Corporation having
one general object in view, the different Groups
comprising it having each its respective junction
and distinct sphere of action. AS a Group may be
compared to a Company, so Series may be COM
pared TO Regiment, which is composed OF mum
bsr Of Companies. phalane ilcat1s tile People,
the united body of the members Of one Assocla-
ton. Phalenstery means their Residence, the
Ediice or Palace of an Association, with all It's
rapgements-Industria Social and Religious:
Phalanx is the living body-Phalanstery the ex-
tcrnal material organization.
THE PHALANSTERY.
THIS one word, the Phalanstery, comprehends
the whole of Fouricr's theory OF associative unity
in its elementary or lowest sense; the immature
of universal urity. Out of the fhalanstcry,
neither liberty nor order can be realized COM
pletelv neither truth nor happiness nor peace can
br secured to Man What is then the Phalan-
stery? A new Religion? No. new political
arrangement No. 1t is neither new sect
nor new party. II is new home for Man IN
diydually and collectively. 1t is little world
in miniature, ificrocosIIl, complete III all Its !
parts, but still imperfect relatively, as type OF
the great universe. 1t is a social or collective |
Man. sort of universal genius, whose faculties
arc multiple and various in unity Of action, more
complete than those of individual man, though |
similar in kind. 1t is social or collective family,
more independent and more provldent, more
cheerful and ndulgcnt than the individual family,
and also moro benevolent and hospitable. 1t is
not sunk in selfish fears, and gloomy discipline,
and wearisome monotony, and niantine dlsqul-
etudc, and Jealous wranglmgs, and sickness, and
i'll temper, and domestic incapacity, and poverty.
and dissipation, and anxiety and litigation, and
the thousand and one other ills Of family contrac-
ton in this world Of civilized duphcity.
at is an Angel, them it will be SAID, but
is it not like other angels, only to be found III
Heaven? Is it not mere imaginary pehg'
without any chance of life on earth Is 1t not IN
fact visionary phantom deltlsion OF ule
mind; a silly dream I? y
II is an angel; you have said 1T and the ina,
lanstery is its habitation upon earth and until
that is built for its reception here, 1t will abide III
Heaven only, not on earth. Whether it be mere
dream or not, visionary being promised III the
Word, and there described propheticaly (Rev
XXI The wall, then, of that great CITY, Holy
Jerusalem is an hundred and forty and four cublts,
according to the measure of Man, that Is, OF the
Angel" This angel is the whole human family
on earth, the new terrestrial Man collectively IN
ono, and the Phalanstery is to be tho individual
type of the great city: the lowest image OF col
lectivc unity in Heaven and in Garth; for all
divisions of a fragmentary nature are subverslvc,
incomplete, and necessarily confllctivc III disumty
The measure of Man, then, VIC arc told III
Holy Writ, is twelvesrmes twelve, "au hundred
and forty and four cubits or elementary degrees
of measurement. For this we have Divine au-
thorlty, and human science rests on that loun-
dation.
The Phalanstcry is miniature of I" that great
city, HOLY Jerusalenl," the earthly habitation of
the Angel or collective family of Man: it is the
habtaton of an individual collective unity,
social being, or an angel Of the lowest order in
the kingdom of celestial unity on earth 1t is d
unitary or collective individual endowed with
twelve times twelve collective faculties or corpo-
rations of industrial activity and social life. 1t
is an Angel, because ii can live in peace and
ai i"o'is Will iseh aiia WIN i'S 'NiS 49, Wv
lsiylng its own wants with case and pleasure,
without fraud and violence, duphcity or anger,
whereas individuals alone arc 81 fallen angels
ignorant and weak, unable to procure the neccs
saries of existence or expand their natural at
iechons in security fallen from the order of &C.
lestial unity, associative and consecutive har-
mony.
But, to be more particular and practically def
mite IN our description, we must leave the higher
for the lower regions of imagination. a Pha-