The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-30

Remarkable Letter from Mr.. Brisbane.
MANIFESTO FROM TIKI GREAT FoURrKRITK PHILOso-
PIER AND INSTRUCTOR OF GRKKLEY 4 C0.-BRIs
BANE's vIKws OF FREE LOVE INsrIrUTIoNs-HIs
PREDICTION FOR THE FUTUR1-MARRIAGE LAWS
TO BIZ ABOLISHED, AND PAssIoNAL ATTRACTIONS
SUBSTITUTED, ETC.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD
see that am once more presented 10 the public
through your widely circulated journal se founder
free love club in New York. and the advo ate ana
promoter OF the doctrine the name Such charges
am well aware, are not Of much consequen e. and a.
they furnish acetious theme for journalism, AMI
men for the public, is well enough, perhaps TO tolerate
them Still, 1t is sometimes worth while to state the
truth, simply q matter Of curiosity.
Let say hen rst that free love club existed in
New York, as am Of and second that the club
called did not found and had nothing to do with its
management. The facts in the substantially
as follows P. Andrews ESQ.,, conceived tho
idea Of organizing social gatherings parties for the
pie at which they could enjoy at cheap rate, various So
cal and artistic pleasures-the dance, music, &c He
carried out the idea well he could with his limited
means, and to these unions the name of he club
His desire furnish the people those pleasures OF
social character of which THY now to very great
extent deprived, and Al rates which would place them
within their reach In word, he wished to introduce
the omnibus system ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS them cheap,
spending his evening in grog shop, aud his wife in
dirty kitchen, would come with the family to the ee-
CANT assembly of the club and spend il in social
and social pleasures. The conception
truly noble one ana could some Of fashionable
and Christian ladies have been induced to take and
carry out, they would have inaugurated institution
which would have exercised very beneficial and refining
influence upon the classes for whom it calculated
Whether the plan is practicable not in the present
state OF society with the antpathes which between
the rich and poor and the and vugarty Of
of many the latter am not prepared to say
but the idea is striking and original In conclusion let
me say that better joke never perpetrated the
public and press than the idea which spread abroad
that small weekly assemblage Of persons, united for
the purpose OF dan ling and listening to amateur music
was an important and dangerous organization secretly
planned for the purpose Of gratifying without limit re
stran the passion e love- and of undermining the basis
of morality and the marriage institution.
As to the doctrine Of free love ITSELF (by which under
stand the liberty Of the aections-the doctrine that the
union OF the is to be based spiritual aa.y OF
souls instead OF legal and external OF persons that
Is OF bodies have only to say that the subject is
tricae TO be treated article of daily Journal
few brief remarks all that possible the present
occasion
my belief that great social revolution is impend
ing and new order of society is to be established on
earth Intelligent minds everywhere coming to the
conviction that theelemens o. higher aud happier social
state exist! and that the present system society with
its train of evils-war poverty slavery, prostitution,
fraud the conflict Of all interests &C. &c-are not nhe
rent III the nature OF things and are not TO be the eternal
lot Of mankind.
If the social organization, whole is to be changed
IT follows as consequence that the parts details which
go TO make up must also be changed. believe,
sequence, that our industrial and commercial systems,
with slavery and hrengsm, crises and revulsons-that
our criminal Jurisprudence, with prisons and scaods-
our theology and IN fact, nearly all existing
are TO pass away and to give place to The
listing laws and institutions we'll adapted to each other
are well interDlsed, and go 70 make up homogeneous
whole such as 1t is Ii would be difficult to change
part without changing many others TO accommodate it,
such being the case, do not advocate any important
change in marriage in present society. A system of
honorable divorce is the most that could be effected
Marriage. which is the compusC union Of a single
and woman for life whether they love each other not
perfectly adapted 10 the present order Of society with
pendence of woman, the absence of social providence
for the OF children. and the and sensual
moral development OF the masses OF mankind.
Still in the order OF society which is 10 be estab
shed on earth, with a higher moral development of
human nature the reign OF universal wealth and ntel
gence the existence association with domestic eco
Monies, hold that q method of Uuon the
,ci b. indugvrdd The law OF that union will be ber
ty will b. based spiritual affinity and action and
Will be governed and regulated by attraction; II will be
union of souls of bodies and worldly interests at
present the material OF external union will last and be
considered proper long only The spiritual un
nues The Law of present society Is fatality slavery,
necessy-the subordnaton OF the spiritual TO the
y-the subordnaton of nature to man-of the material
to the spiritual Marriage at present participates in
the character OF the society to which belongs IL
tpged with slavery and materiasm: and IL could
be otherwise without violating that unity OF system
which the Law Of all organisms In true social order
marriage will be free and spiritual; 1t will be olsen
thraued from the shackes, the fatality, the stern
and terrible material necessities TO which II sub
eced such in brief doctrines in regard to free
owe A. BRISBANE