New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-07
FOURIER md HIS IDEAS.

T. he IIaO~ Of TIE NJ " Tr,Sus&
SIX: Tomorrow will he the eighty fhh anniversary
Of the birth Of CHARLES FOURIER. He vas oorn
Bees.cop. France, Oh the 7th OF Aoui I'' anu u''N
in PsIis on the 10th of October, lS5'.
The tune may come when mankind WIS rec7u '"oeo
dates with some inter-s Mean While aio0 "'e 7"
correct certain gross misconceptions 10 'FePo0' ~
FOURIER which in on age intelligent IS ours, ought
se-er TO have existed.
g. FourryR WAS not, in any received sense of the
ro,d Socialist. The great founder of Social Science
WA - mach oppostd TO any promscuous, hap-haz-
ard .saclsiop of individuals as the founders Of musical
,cieooe would have been to any promiscuous, hap.
b.zd combination of sounds for the former would be
A. far from producing ScaI Harmony THE Odly end at
Which FOURIER aiIued ~ the latter from producing
musca harm my. In o'her ~ords, inc %'e"ce OF . ,
cety expounded by FOURIER, Is the Sci 9ne OF co n
bipbg sDo concordiDg individual eIsrtrf4rs- which
differ from each other mnch and os regrariy IA the
essential eounds which furm the basis Ut Tcslc-ln
ysem OF Association, governed by rules A. abs )lue
and AZ peret the rules that govern s0lnds forms,
oolors etc. AID produce when rightly spOet mdsc1',
geom.ticsi and cbroma1o barnonies Ih@se rules are
Essentially the same in Al 'he Harmonic Of the uni
we're, the fundament"l ID" OF when Is UNITY Or
system
= H. ForRIER WAS in no sense OF the word Commu
mist; bis fundamental doctrine in respeH IN property
vas that the profits of Industry (the basis OF a.
talent ard capital Of each indivldua'
Ill. FOURIER was neither an intdel nor sskept'c,
but recognized in all the works OF crea1on me osno
a supreme and overuiing Providence. In TACT ne
carried his belief in this erpect TO the extent OF oellev
ing that God tn crcoffsg man, snd creating nam as
SOCIAL BEING precaeuaied and pr 1orddiaed for him
.a., of social yelofs0s chfch he should long stncc
5ore d,,cope,Yd and e,t0bished instead Of wurPtHg
IRE D,cine PyeyOeat'rs md depts,ng dr6trdry sys'
tens OF has onR FOUAIER commended that II man had
had any real faith in thA Universally OF PfoVdence,
~ k.xra Fra YrQAQ
be would bave known thai G1d must D sve irS'neu
yysem OF for the re- ulsdon OF our Social relations,
and th., any Other sysen, based on human reas 10
alone, would ,e.ult iii general antagour'1 dscord,
war suf, ring end crime FoURIfRs 'uhoeh'y HA'u
this extent, DO more
w FOURIER was no' 10 favor OF apy i'm Mediate
Change ia TIE relations ~ tie bu held that our
present eyste of msri was the be- ina, cOold De
aeyseC for the eristUg ,Ocid order bu' ne oeiieved
rightly or DOT that human society IA d"sunet 10 con-
tpue its onward care, and TO 20 through various
other phner Of deVe puett, each more perfect thau
the preceding, and different rom each otner rs
the Psuarchsl state r'n the savage, az the CiVzeo
from the Barbaric w,th each successive phase, ne
held must come Ne usnDere and customs ne modes
OF life, new social rel Aud instItntlon' approx
mating nearer ID the absolute or harmonic
Standard aud, in keepiog with this theory, ne con
tended that at last the relgo OF UsyERsAL As
sOcIlTIoS tbere wOu1 bs coce of laws for regulat
ing the relations of the sexes which would produce a
system of Amatory Harmony az perfect. as varied IN
hs eecs as full OF nch "cGords and - free nom mo-
potopy "a the system of Musical Harmony.
V. EovRIER did not advocate the unlicensed gratit-
cation Of the pseeiOns; but be old insist that all the
faculties and powers Of man ought to be fully ana hdr
,non,onsiz developed-lst. Because they were i'm
planted Ia us by God for this and no other purpose
3D. Because it is only by the integral syste nAtic and
harmonic development OF his whole nsture, moral
intellectual and ply sca that man can fulfill his des
tiny on eaItb, woicn Ia IL resIze upon Il universal
harmony and secure the reign of UNIVERSAL truth,
UsIyaRsaL HEALTH, UNIVERSAL WEALTH, and UNI.
vERsAL Happiness. =,
prpciole OF sefindugence and epiursm, implies d
sysem OF UsIvERsAL INDUSTRY, the sc'ive participa
ron in which on the par % every i0dvdasl-m1n
woman AID child will oIn'ttate the Chief source o
human happiness.
That man who held sa h Opinions, aud who gave a
long and rIeproachabe life to their adv )cary should
be coDssotly held up - public opproorium and that
this opprobi shsuld Do invoked a'so upon me headt
OF all bic tiriples and upon the heads vi all who
would give him fair bearing. may not be inexpica-
be, but submit that 1t II very unjust.
Nev Iork. April G, 1857. HENRY CLArr, il
fully concarripg in the Wow of the writer Fourier,
In his various writings, developed some great
truths, for which the world had long waited, and
which it will In due season accept and profit BY.
The great and dificult problem Of recOncling uni
verss plenty with individual possession or property,
pnfailipg work and just recompense for each with
unlimited freedom of requirement family prvacy
with the most perfect social economy, has been
solved By Charles Fourier. There should be no
psupers but the criminal or the utterly incapable,
in community penetrated BY his Suggestions. So
far we hold the world deeply indebted to hi n, and
believe his Leading ideas Of Attractive Industry and
Associated Effort will yet be widely and bene6oent
ly realized. But if he taught or held that there
would ever come time under any possible social
srder, wherein the father and mother of children
could inpocentiy dissolve their marital partnership
and enter respectively into marital relations with
new partners, then we say that his views on tAss
point were utterly mistaken and wrong, and can
never be reduced To practice without producing
universal anarchy and immortality. 1t is the part Of
wisdom to separate truth from error in every mans
teachings, accepting the former only-or, in the
words Of st, Paul, Prove [try] all things; hold
fast that which is sood."-Ed. Trib
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