New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-06
"THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW for

April This is the second issue since the work passed into
the hands of Mr. Chapman It's topics are well selected
Of current interest discussed with bOdness and vgOr
and suggest thoughts which agitate and purify the
mind. very piqusnt article Is that entitled Physical
Purtansin," which treats the various hygienic new
lights of the day with mingled gayey and common
The present Condition and Prospects of Europe form
the subject of paper showing great power of observa
ton and insight though presenting questionable
conclusions The literature of the Contr emit for the
last few years. has been the growth of social crisis like
the night OF the Brocksberg-a sort OF intellectual and
moral chaos to which scarcely anything analogous lie to be
found unless go back eighteen centuries in the
history OF the world TO the fall of the Roman Empire when
the ancient gods dying when the human mind was
wavering between the skeptcal empricism of the
and the aspiration of the slaves to the Unknown
God when the earth trembled under the steps of
known races, impeled by mysterious, irresistible
powrr toward the center OF European society"
The social Ideas which at the bottom OF the present
European struggle well stated, in passage which
incidentally presents the noble and rrefagabe creed of
the Christian Socialist Are the opponents of that creed
willing to accept the issue here advanced
Let II, then, be openly declared by every honest man
that this struggle Is sacred, sacred liberty sacred
the human soul 1t is the struggle which has for It's sym
boil since the commencement of the historical world
the great type OF Promeheus which has for its altar in
the midst Of the march Of the human race the of
Jesus which has for is apostles almost all the Of
genius, the thousand Fl lars OF humanity. This warcy
which rises from the ranks of the Prefecture the cry of
our fathers, the lusses The cup for all the cup for all
1t is The logical consequence OF the doctrine
US all the unity of God, and thereore of the human
race IL is an effort 10 realize the prayer of Christ Thy
rtU be DONE earth IL is IN hearen Yesterday we
worshped the priest the lord the soldier the
to day we worship NAN his liberty, his dignity, his i'm
mortality, his labor, his progressive tendency all that
constitutes him creature made in the image OF Cod
not his coOr, his birth, his ioune-al that Is accidental
and ransitory in him We believe that every man
ought TO be temple of the living God that the altar up
on which he ought to sacrifice God is the earth his
held OF rial and Tabor that the incense of his sacrifice
Is the task accomplished by him that his prayer love-
! his power-love resized-Association we believe no
more in that narrow dualism which established an ab
sard antsgonism between heaven and earth, between
God and his creation We believe that the earth is the
stepping stone 10 heaven that il represents line ia the
immense poem of the universe note in the everlasting
harmony Of the Divine idea and that the accordance
OF our works with ts harmony must depend the eleva
ton of our actual being and our hope of progress in that
transformation of life which call death We believe
In the sacredness Of individual conscience in the right
OF every man 10 the utmost acknowledgements compatible
with the equal right of his fellows; and hepce hold
that whatever denies shsckes liberty impious and
ought to be overthrown, and soon as possible de-
stroyed.
The following summary of the questions at stake
has no novelty 10 the social retormer but has the
merit OF being compact and logically consecutive we are
glad TO give il circulation
be thus defined the abolition Of the prolesariat the
emancipation of producers from the tyranny of capital
concentrated In small number OF hands rediyson of
productions, or OF the value arising from productions in
proportion to the work performed the moral and intel
ectual education of the operative voluntary assoi aon
between woikmen gradually and peacefully as much As
possible for individual labor paid at the viii of the can
ifast This Up all the reasonable aspirations of
the present time Il is not question OF DESTROYING
eoons4ng or violently transferring property from one
class 10 another Il question of extending the circle
OF consumers OF consequently sugnentiug production
Oh giving a.arger share 20 producers of opening wide
ROAD TO TIE operative fog the acquisition OF wealth and
Pfo.V shert OF putting capital and the instrn snts
VI aooi "aiasn reach OF every Offering guarantee
OK good VIII, capacity and morality These Ydsas AZ,
Jusi' and they destined eventually 70 triumph his
toIscally the time ripe fs their reshzaion tn d.
emancipation OF the sarc has succeeded that OF tie CERT.
thai q the serf clust BE- followed BY tina, of the a.
In me course O human progress the patriate b,s mn,
oernnnei the despouc privilege of ROYALTY: the bopr
geolsle, TIE hnancsa srisocracy has under,ipsi tba
privileges OF birth and now the people the xortsrs
wall undermine the privilege of the p-onrietarv "a
moneyed bourgeoisie: rnl society unded unon lahnr
shall recognize no other privilege tba that OF vitons
intelligence, presiding, by the choice Of the people en-
hghcned by education the whole Seyeiopnsnt of
Its faculties and is social capabilities.
Shelley and the Letters of Poets "The Commerce
Of Literature" and The Early osAkers aad Quaker.
ism are the titles Of the remaining articles which pos
sees the greatest general interest The abstracts OF "Co
temporary Literature in diesent countries are con
hnud and iorn agsod feature in BE new series q the
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