New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-04

through the Divine concescensnon HseH, pfoio"nuiy
at one with God naturally, 10 ess than spiritually;
and hence, arrays the believer no longer IN the az
titude Of denying nature but altogether IN the att
iude OF denying those who, for their own DISHONEST
ends, or because they would make lucrative traihc
out Of the purest affections of the heart, haotuahy
malign and misrepresent nature
The fundamental axiom of Christianity is the d.
vine NATURAL humanity. Under literal doctrine
concerning the life death and resurrection OF the mar
Cbrt Jesus is figured forth the great spiritual r attn
NJ the Divine yivifcation of human nature hseh.
The Christian idea Of righteousness accor DINGHY is,
that il comes about by manner OF p-act,cel con-
foruity 10 what is highly esteemed s.nong men, let
them be the best men that have ever lived; but ex-
clusively from the indweng Of God in our very ma
ture. Now, Gods dwelling place ia our nature is
preennently our self.hooi sestiment Of freedom,
rather than our merely animal sppetites and passions
But during all tie infancy both Of the individual
mind and Of tie race, this selfhood sentiment Of
freedom in u.s. is contrajBed TO these nsurgent
appetiteS and passions, in other words finds itself
under law 10 our base Adamc necessities, and bound
to bring forth only such dscordan fruit they per-
nit. During all this period, we never once suspect
the truth Of the case or recognize ourselves to be
divinely vivifed, but, on the contrary, deem our
selves to be purely natural exstences, rghtuy sub
ject TO all the pains and aches which Dhere IN NOR
tally During this period Of the Divine observation
in our nature His power is limited 10 the activity OF
the moral sentiment within US, or the play OF those
forces which gradually loosen the grasp of nature
upon u.s. at the expense Of evolving the devil.
For diaboc existence lie plainly superior to merely
natural existence since even that very relation of in
version which it presents to the Divine life, is true
relation and gives il nearness to God which nature
can never know The devil can at least deny God,
and by that denial of the truth relate himself much
more intimately TO it than the lamb or the tiger,
who can neither confess nor deny it, can ever
have the least pretension to do. While this moral
evolution Of humanity is going on, then, we are re-
ally dabOlic exi.tences filled with sense OF the
proudest independence, eagerly appropriating all
manr or Of good and evil TO ourselves as if it were ut
terly underved TO us from spiritual association and
lifted accordingly at one moment to the highest sum-
ms Of sefcomplacency, only to be plunged the next
to the most abject depths OF despair. We are now
individually, all the while, societys patient martyrs
or asses feeding unrepiningy upon the thisles and
garbage she throws out to US, and mutey accepting
whatever cudgeling her sense of unrequted want
leads her to infict upon everything but herself
But in Gods providence, this iniquity, or reign of
the devil has its limit There comes time when the
sentiment Of our inbred freedom becomes go intense
as to reject with this monstrous domination of
society; when the sefhood so keeny feels the immac-
ulae divinity Of its origin to disav0w forever the
base superstition of its derivation from our merely
earthly or Adamc necessities and to claim therefore,
the direct inspiration of God. MARY, and no longer
EVE, is the word of this dispensation Mans virgin
selfhood soul unpolluted by earthly contact, and
conceiving from the immediate presence ofthe Divine
spirit instead of Adams imbecile and serve drudge
ignorant Of her true origin and destiny, and good
therefore, only bring forth and suckle those ggan
tic children Of pride, who have hitherto done nothing
but corrupt and leftover the innocence of earth. or
course then, if we suppose man to have reached THIS
crisis Of his history, we must see that every true
hope toward him turns upon the fullest authentica-
ton Of his freedom; that is, upon his being delivered
from out the grasp of his bodily necessities, and
pu, at once upon the acknowledgment of his spiritual
nature and destiny Socialism is the potent spell of
this incarnation. Acknowledge every mans equality
with every other man. his equal right so far as so
cieV is concerned to have his bare natural wants sup
Piled and his rudmentary education provided, and
you at give him self-respect, restore him to
God. Refuse him this boon, and every instinct OF
God in him drives him to turn the world upside down,
until he accomp,hes that penary extrication of his
soul from the tyranny of violated passion and of ap
petite infatuated by starvation, which the simple fact
Of his creation guarantees him.
Especially: give Marriage the only honest authen-
ticaton it posscsses-that of the hesrt-and you in
santly yacate the tie Of those hdeous aduteres and
murders which appear to be its irseparabe fruit,
by introducing at every clean and sweet and
innocent relation between the sexes Marriage is the
sacredest symbol known upon earth, because it is the
apt and adequate expression of that union between
the Divine and human natures, which alone consti-
tutes creation. As this union takes place only in per-
feet freedom, let the symbol seek at once to reflect
this freedom. In other words, make affection the
sole sanction of Marriage, by devisng suitable fac-
ties of divorce in which the interests of children and
all other third parties shall be fully secured, and you
at once put Marriage upon footing of deathle's
honor You hold that almost everybody in that case,
would fling up his heels instantly in the very wanton-
ness of license; but suppose then to do So it would
only be momentary reaction incident to the general
and would instantly rectify itself.
MY doctrine, then, is very ineligible. hold
man to be primarily creature az God, and
only secondarily a creature of nature and soci-
ETY.. He is intended therefore, for freedom, and not
for bondage. Make affection alone then, which is
the true sphere of his freedom the law of his action,
and YOU at once insure his bringing forth every divine
fruit. You may dislike the doctrine to the degree of
adherence but you simply delude yourself and no
one else, when you profess not to respect it. Your
fears betray what your prudence conceals. The
timdity which leads you to exclude from your paper
what may at least call my perfectly decorous con-
ributions this subject the plea of their dehling
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