Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-05-01


indeed says social astrologer precisely the
laon to the Lord the complete divine man, that th
present path of the ecpc does to the equator which
relation Of decided obhquity Philosophers tell th
when the earth shall have attained her true poise upoh
her axis, the path Of the ecptic viii be coincident wi
the equator and the rgors Of winter and the ervors
consequently win alike give place to ai
perpetual spring which shall battle the whole earth ia
gladness So, when humanity, excaims Mr. James, shal
have attained true moral poise, these who hare
hitherto been her ecpdc twill give place the equao
rial perfect man. who shall completely reconcile the
still disunited elements Of good and evil in indi-
vidualty which shall carry the dew and fragrance Of God
into every nook Of daily fe and absorb
alike the parched adty Of the saint and the rank fecun
dity Of the sinner in the unity Of the integral man.
In the present order Of things life at best checker
ed scene Of lights and shadows. As the poet sings
Enough has Heaven INDUCED Of Joy below
To tempt our tarriance in this lov'd retreat;
Enough has Heaven ordained Of useful wo
To make US anguish for happier seat.
But when the earth is swung back to her equatorial
pose and man has attained his true moral CENTRE there
viii longer be any need of higher sphere in which 70
fulfil his destiny and by that time oo science will have
established such chemically exact equilibrium between
the nurment and excreton the absorption and the e4
halaton that perpetual youth will result just inev
tably water from the union Of oxygen and hydrogen
Why, in fact exclams philosopher Proudhon, should
grow old? The sprtualists and heosophs promise us
and imperishable life beyond the grave Why doss
not this life commence from the present? Why EaH
ton? And if this hope be well founded who knows but
that day by the perecng Of the species the present
life may acquire this ultrn-mundane incorruptbity
People have long believed in the possibility of escaping
DEATH examples of it have been ctedwitness the ira
diton of the Wandering Jewn-a proof beyond reply
says the French communist that the previous experience
which man has made of death has not mt all suiced to
demonstrate to him the necessity of the thing" But still
it is be expected that the social Jewellers viii feel
authorized to dispense entirely with the services Of the
great leveer" is the duty Of society to preserve
constant arithmetca equality. Accordingly the humane
tary philosophers have recommended the painess e1
tinction Of all the supernumery offspring Of social
phaanx" and, melancholy pleasure to the bereaved
parents it has been beautifully proposed to adorn the
corridors Of their communistc temples with middling
sized owerpots in which should be inferred the infants
who had thus persisted by painless extinction in order
that the community might not be oyerburdened." Bills
of mortality it is true will then be out Of date, but in
their place will succeed floral catalogue of the " pain
less exnctons per week by which society viii be assur
ed of its equilibrium and taste for flowers kept alive in
the yrtuous ladies of the association This the dse
ties of communism asIa tft aa g 4e.i t4 IL st
The socialists of France have been too much disposed
to defy Labor With daring profanity they have dox-
ologized it by the a noers of their mpious devotion
saying Thine oh labor, is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory for and ever amen" But Mr. James
has no such doatrous homage for the accursed
sity of earning ones bread by the sweat Of his brow"
Talk may gala days, says he man hates compul
sorry labor labor which the body lays upon the soul,
becausc does express the order of human e
Isv,p
the proper glory man. and which reveals itself only in
free or spontaneous aoonaction that descends from the
soul to the BODY Nothing but whips and dungeons and
gbbets and ceaseess army of affirming the terrors
Of vndctive future keeps the needy he says from sup
plying their wants in summary way than by their
present servitude and Mr. James is the enemy
sf all penal exactions the reader readily infer the
contamination he thinks devoutly to be wished !" and
unless speedy justice be done 'shuman individuality
Wy srnshiuy II suitable media for the display Of its 81"
most and essential Innocence" he predicts that like
bursting hundercloud win break in eccentris and
| explosive methods"
We do feel that it is at all incumbent to at
tempt confuation Of the transparent falacies which
lurk in almost every proposition and paragraph of the
extracts above quoted They too eIravagant to be
even specious There truths automatic that
it work Of supererogaton essay their demonstra
tion and there some fasities papabe that ike
the darkness of Egypt they do not require for their
discovery much to open eyes they can be felt
To state them is to conute them They all emanate from
what 0Conne would have called "a multitudinous and
monstrous lie " or if this expression implies dsrespe0
full imputation from egregous bunder, to wit that
social inequalities and governmental repressoS are the
causes instead Of being the effects Of moral and
quenty physical evil As well might YOU say that the
knife and cautery the compress and bandage Of the sur
geon are the Of and tuors and broken
limbs We pass to notice morasm Of our author re-
spectisg the philosophy Of intsmperance"
Very ardent and well meaning rermers among US are
anxious ito up intemperance by the roots" and to
this end propose the entire suppression Of the traffic in
intoxicating liquors exception mechanical, medicinal
and sacramental purposes.n All such philanthropsts
viii be interested to learn o reformatory process which
win encounter no oppodtion from rumseers and which
nevertheless we are assured win prove nfalbly efec
tive Cases Of conHsmsd ntsmperance says Mr. James,
are cngng and burning reproach to the society that
tOlerates them. Society he asserts, "has ample vr
tue to cure every instance of intemperance within her
limits prouided shs had only the NIL 10 ero H. Drunken
ness he arges Is the vice Of those Of passive habit
in whom the energies Of passion and thought superior
to their energy Of action Now IL society cons
tuted that every found sufficient stimulus in his daily
engagements to call into action his energies Of thought
we are assured that would resort artificial
ture The first step and the vitality important one, in
Mr. Jsmess process of reforming drunkard consists in
cety coming regard drunkenness nothing more or