The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-11-10

showing, and tryin.: 70 convince this clasa
Of TINS friends Of she poor, Of The propristy
Of addlns Wisdom to their Kindness Id thsli
treatment Of the poor aud laboring classas-
the expsdiency and des:nbility Of using
their money for the benefit Of these 10 IN.
other way than by charity--direct charity.
We do not, st this time, pretend to treat
any Of the points but in the INST general
way, leaving the attempt 10 exhaust them, o.
to treat them more IL detail, for another
time
The subject is the very heart u the social
science pre- biem, around these points cen
ter the most important questions that the
mind Of man has for contemplation, compre-
hension and solution--the most lmportan,
questions Of all time. These two terms,
Love" and Wisdom" are both particular
and general iu their general sense they are
representative, and seem, in q way, to in
Glade and divide between them, not only the
domain Of man--his passions, feelings
emotions, sentiments and thoughts, but the
whole field Of nature. For example, love
and the law Of gravitation may be said to be
but different degrees Of the same force, the
same general principle Of attraction. Love
being the highest degree Of the principle
Of universal attraction. Wisdom, and the
arrangements Of parts resulting In the orga-
nizs,'cn Of the lowest physical bodies, are
the two extremes Of the same general prin-
ciple. lin these examples We are using
these words, Love and Wisdom, In their
commonly accepted signihcation)
Speaking thus of Love and Wisdom has
brought to mind the fact that Swedenborg,
in the principles Of the " Language Of Cor.
respondence," which be makes to connect
God, man, and all nature, advances this sne
idea of them, and in fact making them alb
soIutely everything. And there is so much
sublimi'y and grandeur, and wthal 80 much
exactness aud logic, in his elaborate treat
ment of these, that one 10 almost afraid to
say that he is mystical, though we are forced
TO the conclusion that he is. He seems 70
us to often beg bis premises
Pardon the aggression.
We propose To treat this, as all other sub
jects which we shall attemRMppOn the
" Positive Science" principles, and to avoid
the mystical.
The progress Of the race has been
from doubt . Insurance; from the "Mys-
teal " to the " Positive" This is exempli-
fed by the growth Of astrology into asron-
Omy; alchemy into chemistry; magic into
" uesmerism;" mythology into theology /;
theology into science; ancient mysticism
into modern positIsism.
Man, sired by God and bc5n Of the earth,
was in bis infancy ouch alarmed at the sup
posed threatening aspect Of both his parents,
as well as soothed by their supposed bless
ings; and thus trembling 6etween fear and
love, be was susperstitious and timid. But as
his experience and knowledge of his parents
land of himself and his relations to them, }
increased, he thought better and more cor
rectly Of them, and as a conseq uence his
fear lessened, whilst his love increased So
even hear We see both the necessity Of the
application Of the Knowing or Wisdom Prin-
ciple, and the result Of that application.
Fear is disorganizing element. So that to
create social organization, fear and mis-
rust must be destroyed, love and wisdom
created, and as we have before remarked,
married. Now the. history Of frateTnal Fear,
Love and Wisdom, Is about similar to that Of
the parental, or rather towards the parents,
as we have looked att Men regarded each
othe- at first with about equal degrees Of
fear ard love. A better acquaintance, more
knowledge lessenei the fear and increased
the love
The intellectual in man is Of later and
slower &. 18th than the passional or emo
tional the knowing than the feeling; WIS
dom than Love, though the former are the
more Susceptible Of degrees Of cultivation, Of
variety in consequence Of neglect, or Of ap-
Pllcation. Hence Ire more prominent deve-
Opponents, first Of the love principle, and
hence the almost exclusive recognition Of it,
In the system Of Christianity for example,
as . means of elevating and making man
what be should be, q Of showing him how
to live Alright, and how to live "harmoni-
ousiy, "-harmoniously With nature, with
himself, with his fellow Inen, and with God,
or the spirit word. Nov we have demon
strated both theoretically and practically,
land to see the practical den onstration one
has but to open his eyes in any of these d.
rections-) The failure, and the necessary
failure, of this element by tsef, to effect
this md or these ends. But the applica-
ton Of 4" Wisdom "--its union with Love
ito harmonious action with it, regulating
guiding and directing it, will effect these
ends, will produce harmony on earth" and
in hell too.
The discovery and application Of the ply
seal sciences is the development and APP
plication of the Wisdom Principle to the
creation of harmony between man
and external nature; and the good results
in this direction are so numerous and con-
splcuous that we need not stop to point
them ont. So with the application, &c, Of
the sciences sppertalning to man as an in
-
dividual towards making him harmonious
with himself The results have not been 30
great here, because the discovery and applica-
ton has not been 50 great. When We come
TO the question of the " harmony" Of man
with man,-to the question Of Society we
lind no application at all, and consequently
no "harmony," but on the contrary, ". We
have seen, and is necessarily so, VIC find
chaos and discord. A few Of the slae among
men have made some truly great discoveries
in social science, but the application, as yet,