The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-28
The Last Of the Fouliesitees Phaianx-GoanU
Gong, Gone:
From the Y. Tribune, July 81
SOCIALISM.

From the N Y. Tribune, July 81
SOCIALISM.
Our advertising columns to cay contain an ar
nouuce ment that the domain of the association
known as the North American Phalanx, In Mon
mouth county, N. j., will be sold at auction on the
81 of 0 tober next. The eatate consists of nearly
seven hundred acres q land ail in excellent condi
ton, and with every advantage for profitable farm
ing CT gardening. 1t will be sold either in q mass
CT in parcels and there is place ia the vicinity
CT New York better worthy the attention Of persons
!ookir for farms For great agricultural school
it would bs uIrivaled.
TIE sale Of this domaia and tt breaking up Of
the phslanx will be generally regar led as 10 some
sort cicslrg thai socialist movement which com.
mencfd n this coul try some fifteen years ago, and
which in the vaiious phases OF it's progress has
certainly exhibited many noble instances Of devO
tior to ideas the most lofty and purposes the most
generous. In the publ, mind ,is movement has
been connected with what ia called Folriefism, but
the truth is that while the incucatioss Of Fourier
have had mere or Less influence on the opinions OF
tot Sc engaged in the vsrious practical experiments,
still we know of no individual among them who
has adopted all of the docrices, true or fantastic,
high OF low, which compose his theory, nor Of any
body ofiI diy3usIs who have attempted to put them
CT any part OF them in practice to any cona 1erabe
extent. As Jet there has never been an experiment
Of FGuriefs social system either in this county
else here; add indeed ths failure OF the various
estsb let ments that have been undertaken is moth
ing Ote thsn is predicN IN every OF his ,oks
1fe socialist movement, which thus dates from
about 1910, was In Q certain degree original with
the parties to II ia this country as it was in other
ctuitres. Here special stimulus was no doubt.
fpti ikst by the publications. OF which Mr. Albert
B,iebsne wasHthe author; but the aspirations 70.
nitfe democratic s,cial Conditions, uora equal dis
hibutitn Of .henavsItsges OF mental culture and
phytical labor, for freedom from the eallirg and
thurman relations o, master and mental, and from
the conventional falstes Of ,iety had long burn
! ed in msny hearts, which nov se'zsd WITH ent1u-
| tissm upon the new mode of attaining the lon2ed
.or Utopia. The srdor and universally with which
tx IDEA Il associa' ion was embraced, proved that
tnspon ded to q real and deep felt want; while the
upteniabe ability end many. sized arguments with
which 1t set beloSe the tubiic, did not fail to
tphst thousands whose ii SIRE was not 80 much to
beLefit society % themselves
Between the gears 1S40 AID 1S45 there sprapg up
three or tour associations Ia Massa ,hus,t five or
a,x IN Western New York, one in New Jersey three
in Ohio, one in Michigan, ons in Wisconsin, and
one or two were projected in Virginia. bat we be-
live Fever established: Most Of them ,weis or.
gained on the principles of joint sso,k and Of
dividing profits according to the time spent in
labor, bnt some adop'ed 'he principle of commun-
ism. Thsy were ger orally very short lived. That
OF Brook Farm, near Boston, lsste six years; tina;
in Wisconsin lasted, we think, two years; aud that
| wtcse termination we to day Ch.onicle, the best
provided and mos; tenacious OF ell will number at
us dsa' Thirteen years There yet remains however.
| in Masss chusetts The community at Hopsdale,
which, without attaining any very brilliant pesu.
paiy Iesnl's still gives no Sign OF dissolution; hut
this is established upon peculiar reii
sious basis. 1t viii naturally be argued taa,
these expsIiments show that aside from spc
cial religious doctrines > like that OF the
Shs kels, for irstarccit i very difficult, if nstim
pcsslble, With such materials as s,cety now fur
nisLes to form associations for tie purposes Of do
INT size, agricultural and mechanical industry, edu.
cation and social life We do not deny the force Of
this argument; but at the same time Il should net
be forgotten that al Of these experiments have been
made under great Disadvantages; that MT one Of
trem has ever had the capital necessary to fairly
cdgsLize its various industrial and educational d.
psrmente; ana taat they have been carried on by
no. ~ypp nj N
bave undertakes. In the failure of thsm all thare
is nothing to demonsuate that urder proper condi.
ttrs and with the requisite means, success may not
be achieved Some oil these conditions are certain.
ly Possessed by the new French American Associa.
,icp, whose establishment is now going for yard In
Texas under the superintendent g Of Mr.. Victor Con-
siceran and we trust the event may prove that il
possesses item all.
Tie gre at practical diff Guilty in these experiments
has been TO secure in the members q due sense OF
personal responsibility aud due vigilance tor the
Common good. The immediate spur Of sefintersst
ret b. Ing 60 directly felt "a in the ordinary mode
of life, and the necdful amount Of food aud clio.
ihiI being toleraby certain, the IL the mem.
btis have no: been innpsled to work 70 diligently
the toll and economy Of the day, or as 4 an EN-.
ployer were overlooking them. Tins shftless
aid careless way of going On has too often grown
up III tie association, and while few have borne
more than their fair shafe OF the TIL and care,
Others have borne less. This defect might, per
hsps, DO obyiated BY more stringent system OF
comreneatlrg the services CT the parties: but at
The same time the truth is ndisputable that in an
association pinchipg economy can less easily be
piactietd than iLgfoated life. Keep pfople apart,
and they can bear privston and want, If not
with facility, without complaint but bring them
INTO genial ard natural relations, and wbg,
before was luxury becomes simply necessary.
IEey require to be better fed aud better housed
and 20 have much more leisure for the social plea.
suIes and opportunities Of culture put within their
reach. Between association and poverty there il
natural contradiction; and we suspec. tina. the for
mtr can never be completely realised nntil She pro
| grtss OF science, invention and rdastry has en-
dowed ,ociety with an abundance OF wealth Of every
kind such as We now scarcely imagine.
That so lofty and satisfying an ideal OF social life
will ore day be fully attained, it would bs impos
sibe to d5ub. tdeed, i! is minated in all trad.
tiers and forttc]d in I'll prophecies. Il is the die.
tate Of common sense, the essence Of democracy aud
the promise of religion Every which increases
the power OF man over nature Is step TO ward IT,
| everything which expands his intellect or strs
noble emotion in his heart, is pledge OF its final
| advent; and It would he as ratonL TO deny that
Il earth revolves that the sacceed each
other, as that civilized society grows towards .
rev condition immensely superior to any that tie
history Of the past or the experience OF the present
| tnh d.stlcte.
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