New-York daily tribune., 1856-06-07

.a.;sn.v a man. But the most subtle and int-
NATE relations ef man are with bis fellow-man.
Hence the importance Of social laws. Hence, in
every sgs, the lswgivers Of nations have been
clothed BY universal opinion with peculiar dignity
and sscredness Moses. Sol"n, Nums AID Alfred
have held the most exalted place ia the admir- son
of centuries But the profoundest lawgivers have
always faNen shCt Of their purposes and hopes.
Laws made by men ever lack depth. The best OF
them reach only to Il surface Of mans nature.
They are conditional, not absolute; they come
from tho outside and act on the outside; they are
preventive and negative, not organic or conssruc-
tive, and can never establish the kingdom Of JUS
tice and brotherhood among men. Human laws
are prohibitions made valid by force; they have
their due place. and are thus benefcent and health
full. While they exist they should be Obeyed, until,
either peacesbly or by the force Of revolution, they
are snnuIled But they cannot be made suhstituses
for ,he divine laws, whose attractions are sustained
by freedom The moral sentiments of man lead
him 10 seek deeper fellowship than can be built
up BY artificial legislation. Humanity aspires to
higher plane than that Of mere municipal and
civic rule. 1t demands another kind of order than
that which reigus at Wsraw or at Washington.
Men can no longer exercise dominion over man.
We must seek for the sublime, all. suficing laws
which are written in Our nature by the hand of
God Man is not permitted to invent laws-he
must discover them. Machinery for carrying the
laws of Nature into practical effect is the most
be can invent. All governments, constitutions,
edcts, are but approximations to such machinery
more or less successful efforts to realize the plan
Of Nature. Man can no more initiate laws f,r hu-
man government than he can for animal Or vegeta-
bic gOveInment-for the fatteI ing Of sheep or the
ripening of barley. His function is executive and
administrative, not legislative. His highest
function is to ascertain the laws of
nature and then direct and promote their exc
cutiOn. What we call laws, and obey as such, are
merely temporary expedents for accOmpl shins the
supposed designs of Providence ALI lswgivers
have legislated on some theory of human nature,
according to their precOnceptions Of the capacity
and destiny of man. But these precOnceptons in
tie earlier stages of human development must, of
course be imperfect, and only partially accomplish
the ends Of unity and harmony. Science, on the
contrary is one and absolute, embracing all topics
of science are shadows that is darkness partially
illuminated The eternal truth Of God, before its
discovery by man, is anticipated by guesses at
truth, human fances and hypOthcses, d, noting ten
denotes toward TRUTH longiDgs for it, and dim pre-
sentiments and perceptions Of it. Thus before
chemistry, came alchemy-before physc, magic
before astronomy, astrOlOgy-before the inductive
philOsOpy Of the mind q swarm of metaphysic
conceits and inventions. Now, to solve the great
question of this age, we need the crowning SCI
eDce of society-a science, net founded on theory
or sentiment but growing out of profound analy-
sis of human nature. The evils Of our social sys
ten-the pauperism aud moral deb,sement the
falsehood and the fraud, the antasonisms and the
partalities-which under the present organization
of society keep pace with the growth OF industry
and wealth, can no more be cured by legislation, or
by didscuc or doctrins discussions, than the earth
can be made fruitful by natural magic, or the
ocean na,igated by astrology. For this stupendous
work a new discovery is Needed. Has such dis
covery been made1 Mr.. Calvert answers as fol-
lows:
Into space far beyond the horizon of his age, the
genius Of one bold man stretched, and behed, what TO
all otbe,s invisible, great continent lying D.hind
the vail of waters Behind the vail OF time there sleeps
a new moral and social world, the exist 7nce of which
WAS az pspabe to the intuition of Fourier moral Co
hmbus was the new ntA world to the creative
yisiop of the GenOese. To this shining world sought
for and hoped for through long ages by trustfu ear
nest natures the path has been pointed by this vihed
Er, nchmsn whO.e great thought, stimulated oy ols-
gust for fraud and Dy love of justice discovered inst
the law of attraction. dscerned by Newton to rule the
planetary sphere is kewire the preordansd rule oi
The social sphere and demonstrated that, under the
fn sway of this law-the force Of which has always
be.n patisly recognized-human relations may be so
ordered that where there is now antaSonis'n there
shall be corporations where lethargy, vvacty where
pauperism plenty where vice, purity; where cohteh-
ton union; where feebleDess, strength.
The origin of great discoveries is simple, and ap,
parently often accidental Nature does her beautiful
and mighty work in sight: il is for us greatly en-
dowed with intellect and capacity of freedom 10 earn
from her open lesson tracing fact TO It's cause Phe
pouenen TO s law The first thought OF the possible
power of steam is said to have germnafed from seeing
the lid rise of boiling teakettle In the fall oi An sp.
ple flashed the laborlng mod OF Newton the Jaw Oh
cravita,ion. A French boy was punished one day BY
his par,nts who were traders in cloth III the town OF
COM for having in the shop tod the truth lhe
upright and clear intelligence OF the boy was
r,yOted bv what seemed 10 him, and was anonStrous
| act Child Us be was, he made vow against com
merce; and this small incident gave the impulse wnica
moved his adult mind 10 seek for the me ans OF INTRO
| ducng truth and LOYALTY into commercial relations
which search led TO the discovery OF the law uesteu
TO harmonic and elevate all human relations. In the
vicissudes OF the French Revolution OF 1898 he lost
! hi- small patrimony, while yet yourg man, and
th,nct forward maintained himself chiefly as com,
| mercial or exchange agent--having refused a good
public employment, the offer of which his ability had
drawn TO HMM order that be might keep freedom
and leisure enough to pur.ue his high studies.
Starting from the religious conviction that all the
pewers OF man. hi. feelings ard his intellectual capac
ties were by the Creator designed TO co-sork har-
monou-ly 9yuly and efficiently for the fall satisiac-
tion Of niaas whole nature, and that men might in cN