The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-11-29

PROGRESS OF THE NEW RELIeroN-We per-
ceive from the " Tribune" the organ OF
the Fourlerites, that the grand scheme for
the ameoration of mankind, and the resto-
ration of the days of Adam and Eve, before
the enemy left the track of his cloven foot on the
finely -graveed walks of Paradise, is advancing ra-
pidly in this country under the fostering influence
Of the choice spirits who have here taken up the bust
ness. Mr.. Brisbane has been planting and Horace
Greeley watering the seedlings all over the land,
and the popular love of visionary projects and hum
bug begins to give the increase. Mr.. Brisbane has
just returned from an extensive tour in the Western
and central parts of this State, and he reports in the
organ that every where the doctrines of the Great
Master are spreading-that the "nobe system is
gaining great additions to the number of its dlsci-
ples-and that the millennium is rapidly approaching.
All this he attributes chiefly to the fact that the
editor of the Tribune" has, during the last two
years, allowed fair exposition of the doctrines OF
the new system, in his columns, and helped them
by his efficient personal advocacy.
Our readers are pretty generally aware that this
new sect, of which Messrs Brisbane and Greeley
are the great apostles, regards Charles Fourier-an
obscure Frenchman, who lived for twenty years in
garnet, near the Bourse in Paris-as a second
Saviour of the world-an incarnation of the divni-
ty-a sort of Goldman, who has been sent into the
world to purify and reorganze society, and intro
duce system of universal peace, order, and happl
ness. All this is to be accomplished by cutting up
the country into separate districts of so many miles
square, enclosed with a strong wooden, or brick
and-mortar fence, and having in the centre STU
pendous hen-coop, capable of containing nine hun
dred bpeds OF both sexes, and all ages, complex
ions and conditions. Here, every man, woman
and child will be privileged to do what seemeth
good in their own eyes, and so give full scope to
the exercise of those beautiful and heavenly senti.
ments, which are smothered," as Mr. Brisbane
says by the present absurd and abominable consti-
tuition of society. There will in fact be, in the
pressve language of the people, perfect ooseness;
and human nature will sprout, and efervesce, and
frisk and frolic, and bask itself in the glorious
shine of the new religion without having to snap
single restrictive thread, knock its shlns against
any Of those unpleasant contrivances by which, I'M
der the present organization it has been sought to
hamper and control its exuberance. Primeval pu-
rity, freedom and grace will be at once restored
Such is the system to which the beautiful theo-
ries of Protective Industry have been welded by
the Fourierite philosopher, and under whose fos-
tering care they are both advancing so rapidly in
public favor. Seriously, however, it is sad mat
ter to witness the spread of such absolute humbug
in any quarter. But so it ever has been with the
great mass of the world. Men will seek for bet
ter order of things any where but from the sources
to which reason and sober judgment point. Socie-
ty wants not the association of men and women in
enormous hen-coops it wants the wider diffusion
and more pervading influence of the principles and
practice of honesty, virtue, and common sense.