The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-04

ii nous eonsentons Gc table rose pour nous ea ten
perpetuate equality amongst u.s. The agra
rian law was but q sudden desire OF few unprnci-
their instinct rather than by their reason We claim
something more sublime and more equitable: b bien
cofnptun on Ia ooTnnUndUte dos hens. D.. The
soil belongs TO nobody in particular Its fruits be-
long to AL We cannot longer suffer that the great
majority OF men should work aud sweat in the ser
vice and for the pleasure OF a small minority.
Let there be no longer any other difference be-
tween human beings than that Of age and sex. AS
all have the same faculties and the same needs
there must be for all the same education and the
same food. They arc contented with the same
the the same portion and Sdo"' the SeO"i" same me
quality Of food be sufficient for each Of them7.
The aim of this nsurrection is reestabsh liberty,
equality, ana the general happiness (bonheu cont
mum Every opposition to the insurrection
win be Immediately quelied by force, and opponents
when the destruction Of of tyranpc gov aS S s
the poor citizens who are nc now sadly adj lodged shall
not return 10 their lodgings All that is wanted TO
furnish m agee Glsanee the lodgings Of the sans ootes
national community keeps all its members da,is uns
SIX 81 the sanPH sSS S6o AL g msm6e %
useful art according to individual capacities.
The community guarantees to each Of its members
lodging; working as well as holiday dresses, linen
and woollen according to the national costume;
washing, light, and fuel sufficient quantity OF food
in bread, beef, poultry, fish, eggs butter and OIL
wine and other drinks, according to the different
and all other things don't Ia reunion constif,ts inc
mediocre eJfUqds atsdnce and finally medical attend
ance.nJ
To this must be added that the whole coun.
try was to be divided into zones for different
kinds of culture; that no communication
with foreign countries was to be allowed
that elected magistrates were to preside over
the collection as well as the distribution of
all national products; and that the authori-
ties were to have full means for keeping the
entire country under the new regime by the
simple expedient of Withholding provisions
from refractory districts.
Whatever we may think of the wisdom or
the practicability of this social scheme,
scarcely anybody will deny it's intelligibility:
and this must be accounted great merit, for
no subsequent school could claim anything of
the kind. Saint Simon, for instance, started
from the point of view that men ought to
love one another; that a new religion is to
direct people towards improvement; that they
must have ''living law" in the person of
Pope of humanity; that the whole of society
is to be divided into savants, artistes, and in
dustriels, whose works are to be remunerated
on the principle, 'To each according to his
capacity, to each capacity according to it's
works" And the whole theory is entangled
in such maze of pagan mysticism and cere-
monial that no normal mind could ever real
iZe to itself the true sense of doctrine the
Interpretation of which finally led to a schism
between it's two representatives, Enfantin and
Bazard.
The founder of another not less celebrated
school, Charles Fourier, discovered in man.
kind passionate attraction" which regu-
lates the social world, like the principle of
attraction which governs the physical world
| The first thing then was to give full play to
| all human passions, otherwise the law of
attraction could not act freely. These pas
sions cannot be wrong in themselves, for they
| come from God; if they are wrong now it is
only through the hampering influence of ex-
listing social arrangements. On this principle
of attraction people were to unite themselves
In groups of seven or nine members, every
twenty-four to thirty-two groups forming
series, which had again to combine them
selves into phdlanges consisting of 1900
1900 members. The phalange was to
live in q phdIdnstere, where everything
| was to be in common except the lodging of
| each family. The remuneration of work was
SO calculated as to give 4-12ths of the pro-
ducts to capital, 5-12ths to labor and 2ths to
| talent, useful work being always more highly
| rated than the ornamental and the pleasing.
| The great artistes, however, the most cele-
brated industriels, and the most illustrious
| savants were not to be included in this scale
| of remuneration. They had to receive their re-
ward in what was to be established as the great
metropolis of the world, where the representa-
| tives of all the phalanges, amounting to some
| thing like half million, had to assemble.
| Senseless sa the foundation of this scheme will
appear to English minds, it must be said that in
its details the system of Fourier gives few
practical hints which may possibly be adopted
some day in France, especislly as regards the
public education of children and associated
cultivation of minutely divided land. The
greatest merit, however, of Fourier, as we'll
as of his chief follower, M. Victor Conside-
| rant, was that they never proposed to employ
| in the advocacy of their doctrines any other
means than peaceful propaganda; and that
| is, perhaps, one of the reasons why certain
traces of Fouriers doctrines remain still alive
| in Europe as we'll as in America without hav-
ing ever injured any of the interests of So
ciety at large.
| These are the most important French
schools, the secondary ones being those of
MN. CADET, Leroux, and Louis Blanc 1t
would tire the reader to enter into greater de-
tails respecting theories which vary but
slightly from those already mentioned NJ.
Pierre Leroux, for instance, introduces as
basis of society the t,iad6, which consists of
three human beings representing respectively
Ia SenSdtiO7a, e sentiment, and la cOn11disSdnce.
This TRADE underlies everything, from the
simple atelier up to the Assemblee Rationale
The formula of remuneration is also triple:-
IA chacun suivant sa capacite, a chacun
suivant son travail, chacun suivant ses be-
| soins" A development of this arrangement
may be found by those whom it interests in
thea ''Projet de- Constitution Democratique
ct Sociale" The doctrines of NJ CADET are
expounded in his "Voyage en- Icarie, which
is simply an imitation of the work of Sir
Thomas More. The author himself acknow-