Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-10-06

IFThe Christian idea of human progress is thus
strkingly presented under the head of " Universal
Brotherhood" in the July number of the Herald of
Truth The whole article from which the extract
is made, is deeply interesting, teeming with argu-
ments against, and rebukes Of religious sectarism
the greatest enemy to the best interests of the
human race-the chains of which once broken, the
march of humanity will be rapidly onward So the
writer thnks-and his views are stated and adyoca-
ted with no common earnestness and ability We
may hereateras we have space give further extracts
from the article:
Ii history makes any one universal afIir-
nation, it is this; that the grand disturbing
element in human affairs, the one great
obstacle to the Providential evolution of
human destiny, has been the spirit of ind-
vidualisn, the spirit which prompts man to
aggrandize himselfat the expense ofthec COM
mon wealth. And if history makes any one
promise accordingly more prominent than
another, more instinct with divine truth than
another, it is this: that this disturbing III
fluence shall yet be tranquilized, and indi-
vldual aggrandizment be brought into strict
est harmony with universal well-being.
conceive that no person can read history,
unin fluenced by private ends, without find
ing this promise ut its very dawn, much
more along its middle progress, and most of
all in the events which now indicate its
rapid fulflment. Look at the whole Proyi-
dental history of human nature, at those
events which separate the human life from
the animal, and compel the instructive be-
lief of a majestic and eleyating Providence
in human destiny. First you see indiyidu-
alism in man soGened by subsection to the
famiiy-and next the tribal--bond; the pa
trlarchal order being the earliest social form
known to the race. Afterwards, as popu-
latlOn increases, you see it still further miti-
gated by subsection to the municipal bond,
the individual being brought INTO unity not
merely with one family tribe, but with all
the families or tribes in one town; which is
the ancient civilization, or the era of Athens
and Rome. And finally you see it still fur
Their modified by subsection to the national
bond, which brings the individual into unity
not only with all his fellow townsmen, but
with all his fellow countrymen. This is
our present civilization. Thus YOU see the
individual unit expanding successfully into
the family and tribal unity, into the munich
pal unity land finally into the national unity.
Its great final Development into the unity
of the race, is what remains for us TO see;
that Development which shall make all the
nations of the earth one society, or one
united family, when a man shall love and
serve not his own nation merely, but all the
nations of the earth; when, in word, his
sympathies shall flow forth towards every
brother of the race, purely according to the
good that is in him. Let no good man
doubt this consummation; the divine exist
ence is thereby doubted. All history yearns
for it. The whole course of Providence
ensures it. Who that traces the beautiful
PrOvidential order by which the individual
rises into the brother, the neghbor, and the
citizen, can doubt that the browning rise
shall as surely be seen; that, namely whereby
the individual having already proceeded
from the brother to the neighbor, and from
the neighbor to the citizen, shall from the
citizen rise into THE MAN,--rise into unity
with all his race, giving to all men an equal
regard, because all have the samed divine par
entage, and the same divine destiny"