New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-24

srd cyll Ucrc, accordingly, Piou' .nop tImtles
iuto ncr, bufo JeTy, dong I'D m ri lliicr0nt o.
Justice to the religious dc selOV >.nt Of man. aud
complaeently decorating his own eternal little
noodle viii tao OF the large =. carr that ever waved
above human shoulders.
Bat II frondhnn COM $500 himself incompetent n
this problem with he O. mach more brutal u sound
docs the Church br - ont me same coafes s9u when
the can ony ahhV rr him by sending bit1 to pri'on.
VINO OUT the cat father OF all donkey would lei
en in.eres' u. sending donkey to prison I'emenl-
per, the Pseuliarity Of Proudbons Doos, the signl
dlncFtn.a It presents % every Other assault upon
Christianity, is that il attacks . exclusively me
T,terest4 Of morality His Argument s subst M ally
this a" Morality suppOses me 10 be free, to BAG
" sefhoOd, 10 be the center Of my oNn ACTIVITY III,
" ten, morality be truc-an1 who dare deny ~ -
81. is fJse TO ray that am amenabls to any outward
vii, that depend iof my welbeing upon my re
" iatitns to any external power whatever. Nhlt
does the Church do Sereup0n Why, II ohndiy al
lows the absolute validity of hs premises, and oel1g
unable logically to combat HE conclusions, It PACKS
him of to a dungeon, and gives bis book prrstg-
e. the popular imagination which no amount OF Ell
lOgy could have procured it. What the Church
should have done, and what i. would have done i II
had not lost every gimneT Of rational insight, l. Il
have confronted his premises, 10 have denied me
absoluteness of morality or what Is the same
thing, demonstrated It's intensely sulordEa'e
uses in ne evolution of humln destiny. Morality
is only the rude motr1 or mold of the Divine lic in
u.s. and inasmuch that life is essentially free, M
asmuch as it will eventually exhibit US clal by Gods
indwellng presence, with every exquisite i"hage
and fruitage of the MODEST manners, 50 conse-
quenty its natural germ or basis is bound TO reflect
or anticipate this freedom, is bound 10 word t.
endOw Us with quasi freedom, with an spparen'
selfhoOd strictly proportiOnate anl nutrtNe to
the real one. Whenever, therefore, morally l!its
it's serpent hiss above the senses e. the
reason; whenever il iDsnuatcs 10 MS Tat
we are rcGNy, well as apparently, tine sources oil
our own activity and the arbters Of our own destl-
ny JET ne boldly give il the lie. We are never tne
source flour own good and evil. Nj the formerls most
strictly derived To US from angelic association, Oh
the latter from internal association. The contrary
most lallaciOus Judgment grows out OF The exquisite
equilibrium in which the forces OF selt-oye aud
charity maintained within the human mind, by
the Divine power; which equ 6riUm ID 40 perfect
as to beget in us sentiment of selfhoOd or free
dom, amounting at last TO downright independence.
This sentiment, thus guaranteed is indeed the only
possible basis for our immortal con junction wi IA
God gu. it ia the mark of fool to mistake appear
ances for realities, and contOund the steward OF
house with its master.
Why then, does not the Church logically con-
found Proudhon whenever he opens his mouth
Because the Church has lost al yestige Of its own
original traditions has utterly ceased to believe
in perfectly innocent lie Of man as the final up
shot Of the Divine dealings with the race. J. has
no idea of any higher life of man than the moral one
and has so besottcd itself heart and head, in eat
" ing OF the tree of knowledge OF good and evil,
as 10 look upon the Infinite Purity itself on as
fiTst-rate policeman. 1t is splendid in this state Of
things TO see the senied and nsolent Jesuitism OF
Europe shrink aftighted before the manly gaze OF
this hearty, fearless frank little bourgeois. It'll an
augury of the beautiful battle which viii soon he
universal and Of the superb, eternal victory which
will soon ensue. May God help bis honest soldier
in the depths of his dungeon, and I'LL hls upright
heart with stOuter stuff than against all ostab
lished hypocrisy and msrule!
had intended sending you some extracts from
the lees controversial portions of She book, bu'
space fails. The book has become ihe talk of Eu-
rope. Louis Napoleon Ill warrant, chucklcs over
it 1t will be long before it drops TO lis proper
level. Il. J.