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NETWORK TRIBUNE.
The True ,1ission of Arr.
LA PHAL RSGE Revue de la Science socisle. JUN
1886. Paris Rue de Seine, 10.


profoundly original wors-a repository for great
fundamental IDEAS relative TO the highest interests
of Mankind and the ablest advocate for Progress
vet cstablshed--is as it were, completely unknown
in America The June number has just reached
us, filed as ever with matter Of deep and varied
interest and treated with ability for the parallel
OF which we look in vain in the pages Of any peri
odicaI with which acquainted The Table
of Contents is as follows
L Publication OF Fouricr's Manuscripts-The Three
Distributve Passions concudcd) Nomenclature of the
Subvcrsive Scale.
9 Historical! Views on Property-2d article By NJ
elliot
g. Souvenirs Of the Annual Exhibition Of the Louvre
for l546. By D. Laverdant.
4. Poetry-Egogue IIarmoncnnc-iIylas By NJ Lc
5 Mclangee-As,roogy and Political Economy-w,h
Some in igo I'd. ,l-i Ex,rac' =. By Fourier
4 Criticism l. Egisc Oficie ct lie Mcssansrnc
To give some idea of the manner in which La
Phalaagc treats the subjects it takes in hand
copy as much as can make for of the
ticlc on the Fine Arts Souvenirs of the Annual
Exhibition of the Louvre
The mission of the Associative
School let it not be forgotten is to classify all things
to produce every where the type OF the Series
which distributes the Harmonics. When we shall
nave established Orucr dTOullu US WHICH inc scntt
mcnt of the Series shall have replaced the misty
void of the cloudy intellectual in which we live, we
NAV permit ourselves to be attracted by the de-
hghtlul vagaries Of fancy Til then we must be
careful not TO be induced to encourage in ourselves
the confusion which regns among the civilizces
Our doctrine Is that of Universal Unity. We
believe that all things linked tosethcr-that IN
order to produce perfect development. each indi-
vidual effort of the human mind should be allied
with the others and that this union OF diverse for
ccs and varied means leads TO more rapid con
summation of the end-to the accomplishment OF
destiny.
The actual destiny OF Man Is the sovereign ad
miuisiraton of the globe the government OF the
whole world by the free and sei.balanced play OF
ali the forces and all the faculties of Man The
freedom of individual cxertion in harmony and
unity being the condition OF happiness. universal
happiness is then the sign and confirmation oil the
ACCOMPLISHMENT, of destiny Man will
have reached his true destiny when he organizes,
in liberty and by hierarchy, universal brother
hood and he will complete that destiny by placing
his immortal soul in communion with God, The
ha,monies of free and gorgeous Nature, the harno-
MES OF the free and refined senses, the haImoncs
OF the heart free and constantly wideGspe and OK
pandinc. the harmonies of free and cultivated
thought. aud finally the religious harmony wherein
nil the others meet and perfect thcmseres.-these
ure the sacred domain OF Art, the world OF the
Ideal If the Artist mas penetrated profoundly the
sense of Beauty in MS. if he has overwhelmed us
with the splendor oihS conceptions ii he has made
us thrill beneath his burning inspiration, 1t IS be-
h,, ot Tho las ma
and sung the Good Happy ii he comprchcnds that
from the accord Of truth love and beauty. results
sovereign power over man--that from their unity
rises the supreme harmony OF life IN the bosom OF
God
To produce this harmony, which floats irom
Earth TO Heaven it is not enough 10 disclose and
teach us the musical notes, the sublime accords-it
Unnecessary to disencaee and separate all the false
tones, all the supertluous dsccrds which tend to
DESTROY the effect of the most harmonious oombma-
tons. For Good TO triumph completely IL is neces-
'sary to destroy Evil, that Beauty may reign we
must ctfacc Deor,nity. Thus the mission OF the
Artist is complex He untods what happiness
lists where Beauty throws the splcndor OF her pres
cnce and he mourns the evils which arise wherever
she is corrupted perverted Art has double
mission ii is the Critic when ii reflects the poverty.
the disorders the sutfcrincs OF Man and Nature and
seeks 70 awaken our pity and our horror for the I'M
paralleled evils to which even the Son OF God HIM.
self subjected himself here below When it sings
to us o. life amid smiles, It's sNendors. its majes
tv its ideal charms then Art becomes harmonic ana
prophetic Salvador Rosa, Carravaslo, EspaSno!et,
Rembrandt, NJ. Eugene Delacroix, NJ. y. Schetser
are particularly deserving OF mention as poweri1!
Critics: they make us hear above the disorders OF
Nature and the Indebtedness of Society, deeply
uttered plaint-a cry OF struggling protcstation
Claude Lorraine, Neronese. Corresio, Raphael
were OF the prophets Of harmony and in their train
come the poetic creator OF Rfce dc 6omhct,r and
NJ. Corot with his cclosucs and Francis and Paul
Huet with their volup,uous pictures of and
NJ Diaz with his paradisical fantasies, and many
other young ard inspired artists.
The writer then goes on 10 speak OF the different
kinds of paintings-commcncins with
Tar LASpscArE-'T hc Landscapes painter de.
pic,s Nature--the waters. the forests. the fields,
the structures raised by the hand OF man on the
r;ver.banks or the hilsidoS. Ii his heart Is cold
and his spirit unsympathctic, he presents SIMPLY 8
portrait OF obeors which he often selects at hazard
Ifhs has rapt and enthusiastic soul 1t is dIverseiy
exercised by the Smiling or melancholy scenes
which arrest his view He is penetrated with
beauty or deforinisy. aud reproduces his mpres'
sions upon the canvass to cnkindle and instruct
US. to guide us onward 10 our destiny
I'm the contemplation OF Nature the landscape
painter has ever presen, the double idea OF Eden
and OF the Earth in exile Constantly attracted
toward the divine harmonies. he seeks every where
for the Ideal Beautiful and reveals to US the ter
res,ria marvels which reside in tree and plant and
flower, in the swelling hills and valleys OF the
earth, In NIL forms and colors. He re-collects the
dispersed elements of the Beautiful. re combines
them and becomes IN fact creator. His work
now assumes the character OF social instruction
aud the Artist thus becomes the revelator OF the
laws OF Order and Harmony a picture by Pous-
sin shows how Man can impsrt majesty to his do