New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-29

Injunction Of conscience. lie ldE % fcflre IN this
system supplies the place q al these uura and spirit
ual oblss atoms The institution Of Marriage for exam
pie 10 regarded divine appointment and pernla
nent in its character The fact that II wAs osnzed
such By CHRIS; ia dsregArded AssoeiAnn considers il
simple form the creature Of society and 10 be changed
modified or destroyed society may allow Thus IL
4 held tine may when i VII be felt 50 need.
less restraint upon the nature OF msn And they have
hesitation Ia saying that TIM Il should give way
and liberal forms OF sexual relations
Then Society should be 90 organized hai man may
have dozen wives OF W0msn dozen husbands II
their passions prompt without producing suffering and
debssement The intrinsic rsh OF the matter j. treated
as nuIity Chnsts injuuctons the teachings of the
Bible the dictates OF Christianity are allowed no weight
This is a gushing feature Of the whole system.
u hss IN Il nothing religious nothins tnat even recos
nizes the existence OF spiritual and moral laws nothing
that takes any the slightest account OF the Bible and s
injunctons. The Law VI Nature u iis supreme com
msndment-boih in theory and in practice. ltrecog
nizes nothing higher snd knows no other sanctions
The system we are aware pretends 10 be religious and
claims be the only true Christianity But AZ we
have seen it rejects the plsnest doctrines OF the Bible
utilities its most imperative commandments and sub
sttutes for them It's interpretations Of the laws OF
Nafare Thus the God IN whom Il processes faith. be-
comes In It's definition. simply the Praneple OF univer
sal unity TIE Trinity in which Il preends 10 believe,
Is resolved into a trinity Of the active passive and
neutral principles Of life and order 1t pavely declares
WAT BY the kingdom of Heaven 10 meant Association
and the command OF our saviour, seek ye nrst the
Kingdom Of God and his righteousness . inierpreedto
tive unity - Thus il believes in Christianity only
when Christianity has been forced into s likeness only
when 1t reflects " imsge-snd then the mage OF itself
and not the substance OF Christianity becomes the
object Of its faith It's whole spirit is in the most direct
hostility 10 the doctrines OF the Bible. recognizes
absolute distinction between the night or wrong-knows
nothing OF the law Of cOnscence-ascTbes no authority
10 reveation-seeks ends and knows no laws above
those of mere Fazre and aims al nothing beyond the
fall and true development OF the nature OF man. -
To call such system religious, is gross abuse OF
language 10 Is the exact antagonist OF Christianity
Il from opposite fundamental principles and aims
At precisely opposite results IL is IN It's essential char
acter Il6de its principles its aims aud ne means are
all those eff lnhdey Is very true as VIII probably
be urged in its defence that Association not alone in
thus regarding the Law OF Nature As the supreme rule
Of human conduct Phrenology, Mesmerism anc the
countless brood of novel sciences which have OF late
years dawned upon the world, all agree IN this They
al unite in dscarding moral distinctions In annulins
conscience and 10 rejecting the idea Of spiritual laws
and Of spiritual existences. Everything Is ident
fed with the laws OF Nature. These laws are revealed
sometimes in bumps upon the skull sometimes IN the
nerves and by means of galvsnic action sometimes In
the outward forms of life and matter but diodys IN
Nature. The law Of Nature is 10 them all, the only Law
Of God And Ia this they occupy precisely the ground
of Association but this coincidence by vim.
dicates that theory from the change OF inhdey 20 the
Christian creed. The principle. wherever and when
Il msnests itself Is the Antagonist VI Revelation
The fact that insnuates itself into and works through
so many foms-that Il peTvades 60 many different sub
ecs and miuges Itself with many diverse opinions
affords ground 10 apprehend Danger from ts pre-
ysence but cannot IN the least change lie character
Is in all It's forms, the same-equay hostile to the Chris
tan faith and equally fitted 10 destroy All confidence In
the established principles Of morals and religion IL may
seem to be harmless because u appears meTeyspec
uatve but this only and thus increases the
danger The scheme of Association the only which
seeks directly and ayowedly 10 reduce 10 practice to
bring society and life in all their Department. under its
power. Butke all principles whether
true or false il creates s form OF manifestation and
will be pracsed fast and az tar AZ Il Is believed
The Association doctrine concerning Marriage for ex
ample be believed without producing It's natural
results. II men become convinced that the Lac Of Ma
n.re alone should regulate intercourse between the
sexes that the bonds Of Marriage, as Mr.. GoDwIN
contends have sanction except IN the arbitrary Gus
toms and obserysnces 0t Society that they ought 10
have no force beyond the consent OF the parties whom
they bind that the passion of lore being impulse OF
Nature ought. therefore always TO have It's full and
free development and that this law OF psssi0Da at
traction is the highest law which man can or should
obey they will inevitably act upon that conviction.
They will TO consider the restraints OF Marriage
as unjust aud oppressive whenever they md them In
conflict with their own propensihes Ana those
bonds will be cast aside and made 10 yield 10 the law
of their nature just fast and just As tar, as the
false forms and subveTsiye Institutions Oh society VIII
permit A moments reflection will convince any one
that this must be- the result OF faith la such principles
And there among US witnesses OF the fact that IN
specific instances these d0rRs hare produced these heu
natural frfs Men and women. in this City end else
where have gradually yielded assent to the principle OF
Assoc aton that passons attraction should be the SUI
preme law and vOvedy under It's influence, acting In
accordance with IT, they have thrown s or dsregarded
the restraints of Marriage and formed other relations in
more perfect accord with the prompnngs and passions
of their nature Now the advocates OF Association, We
fully concede do not aim at such results n0p they con
tend that the existing form OF society not saed TO the
full and free development Of mans nature. But they
also maintain that society and should receive nae
form adapted TO II and that then the whole theory may
be carried into full effect FOURIER himself went no
farther than this He taught that time would come
when Inconsistency would be provided Tor, and that II
would then be crime because II would cause no sui
fering-" because no evil consequences would result
from yielding to its impulse The Tribune hesltatngJ
intmstes that he was in error In thinking that II would
produce no suffering butt not II ne was rght IN so
thinking then The Tribune has no farther scruple II
would then insist upon such forms AS would secure
the full development OF human nature Here then Is
an entire agreement the fundamental principle Of
the supremacy of the lac Of nature And both stand
Ia exact hostility to the fundamental doctrine OF
Christianity, that there Is an absolute distinction De-
tween right or wrong by which wrong HT1
become right Whatever may De It's consequences.-
The doctrine Of the Bible is that Marriage In Itself an
institution Of Divine sanctions ;-Constancy Is law oil
Divine Injunction. Its violation IA arrays wrong no
matter what NAV be the consequences resulting from IT,
The moral character OF the act does not at all depend
upon its results perfect Society would certainly
10 be that in which the Jaw oil G0d should De most
perfectly obeyed that in which, therefore, marriage
should aerer be dss0uble except in those cases Tor
which specific provision has been made. Those cases
are those Of adultery-those in which impulses OF IN
cOnstancF nave AIthuy Urtu Htc Ntftt-
oprnent' II there had been however no Inconsistency
If the Society were pGfct-marrisge would be- accord
ing 10 TIE law OF God absolutely sdissolubls But The
T1blHGs theory Of perfect Society IS quite the re-
verse Of all this for Ia such Society il says mar
risges might be dssoluble At the pcaslre OF the
contracting parties
Ia this respect the scheme Of A's0cGiiOH agrees
trely with Ooeasm and all the various schemes Of
cial reform which have from time to time, been pro
pounded attempted and exploded In Of the mi
nor details their machinery there may be apparent
difference between them; but they all agree in making
Nature the only supreme lswgyer they all reject the
scrptura doctrine OF mans deprsyity-the Christian
atonement-the reality Of spiritual laws and divine
sanctions and the other fundamental doctrines Of the
Christian faith They all start from this hypothesls-
that evil Is the resu, OF ercs'aHces-snd not the fruit
of sin In the heart and then they All attempt reform In
the same direction, namely, by changing the circum
stances by which are surrounded. All these
schemes therefore In their fundamental principles are
anti Chrstian-ere igfdsi IN their tendencies.
The Tribune reera,es its dlsavOga Of responsibility
for ANYTHING that Objectionable In Association. This
II asserts Is not the Socialism % he Tribune Now
we have never understood Tia Tribune 10 claim the
aalor,lip of the system advocates u does not pre-
tend TO have invented new system but simply es
pouses advocates and defends schsme already dis.
covered by FOURIER and Introduced into this country
by one Of his personal friends and followers. The TT
bns therefore cannot make Of that ~ stem whseyer
plesses |, i not working alone in It's behalf, but In