New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-04-19

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that COP cert or Ball, a Lecture or Commit
tee of Management, are all considered as d-stinc.
ilInc,iors, no difference beng made IN harmony
between Attractive Industry and Recreation. The
useful and the beautiful beng equally delightful
IN alternate acton.
At first but little alienation Will be practcable
but as the risng generation are instructed IN TIE
various details of Art and Science, great variety
OF occupation Will be practicable universally 50
that each individual may frequent several diner
cnt groups daily, and fifty corporations nay DC
every day IN active operation. This VIII PIE
vent monotony and WEAKNESS rom constant fepe-
tition.-one person being seldom long IN contact
with another.
But how viii you prevent the members gene
rally from prcerring those professions only that
are-rnost agreeable, and leaving others unprovldec
for? There are ways and means Tor this, by ~
crcasing indirectly the attraction for undressing
labors, and curtailing the advantages OF pleasur-
able occupations that IS, by paying highly for
the unattractive, and inditierently FOR the most
agreeable But. independently Of this and other
secondary means of equilibrium, Faith and SCI
ence tell US that God has created men and women
with variety Of tastes and capabilities exactly N
proportion 10 the wants Of Social Unity, and the
general varieties OF the creation under our con
troll Fourier has dwell at length on TINS I'M
portant feature in the harmony of Nature, and
proved satisfactorily, from both natural and
spiritual Revelation, that the final destiny OF Man
is Unity with God, with Man, and with the Lnl
verse. The Divine Law OF Love and sympathy,
Attraction and Affinity, Is ONE in every sphere
of life and movement, and the serles OF groups
and individuals in graduated and contrasted or
der, is the mathematical expression OF that Law,
which rules the Universe IN harmony.
But dissonance is requisite IN harmony as wen
as consonancc, and, IN the music OF the soui, the
dissonance Of passlona vanetv Is not less neces-
sary than in common music; and the law OF per
feet equilibrium is similar IN both though IN the
present state OF things the fallen or perverted soul
Of Man is ont of tune with perfect love and not so
easily subdued to harmony as will be finally. The
rcligious sentiment, for instance which ought TO
be the easiest Of all to harmonsc, VIII be at first
the most refractory and difficult, lntclerant and
blind, both positively and negatively, OF super.
sttiously and sceptically. The lowest mode OF
harmonising this subvcrsivc state OF Passion IN
the Phalansterv viii consist in rational toIerauon
or negative charity, according to the positive IN
junction of the Word Of Cod" Judge not, that
yc be not iudged."-( Matt. VII. l.
This is the negative charity only because II
does not lend Man any aid or do hun any good :;
it merely rcfrains from prosecuting HIM, Or DONG
him positive injustice The Word OF God beng
the only standard Of authority admitted by all Re-
ligious Sects and Parties, ii is the only standard
which all the members Of the Phalanstery are OK
pcctcd to admit The next principle OF harmony
is the Church itself, or Catholic authority based
on the liberty Of private judgement, or liberation
Of opinion, or negative charity. Our views OF
this question have been expressed al some length
in the seventh Number Of the Monthly PhalanX,
December, l6l2, in which it IS stated that we
conform to the Established Church in Catholic
countrics-Greek, Anglican Roman-wlth re-
gard 10 plblic worship, without being under the
necessity Of violating individual liberty OF con-
science, in subscribing to exclusive Articles OF
Creed composed by human or traditional authority
alone. In acknowledging the Church established,
und subordinating individual opinions, we ac-
knowledge Catholic supremacy and unity IN ITS
traditional aspect of authority, as well as Reyc-
Iation so tlia we do not encourage schlsIn, or
otherwise oppose the Church. We merely claim
the RIGHT and privilege of private judgement IN
subordnaton, which principle of freedom is the
very life of Faith AS general basis, then. of
Religious Unity in the Phalanstery, all parties
admit the authority of Revelation and of Catholic
Tradition in the Established Church, and all con
form TO the ordinances of The Church and ITS
established forms ot worship. This Is the basis
of Religious Unity IN lis two-toId form; the
invisible and the visible; the Word and the
Church; Revelation and Tradition and va
roiics Of doctrinai opinions and conceptions are
harmonlscd in subordlnatlon TO tins p1nclpie OF
Unity, by means OF corporate affinity. hat ~
to say, those persons who have Il decided prefer
cnce for the study of a particular aspect OF Re
lir;ous Doctrine, form "a Spiritual Corporation
and meet together often as convenient, or
mutual instruction in tina, branch OF Scnptura
KNOWLEDGE and understanding.