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70 oChambcrs-strcc, between Chatham and Centre
streets. at llalf-past o'clock. \ general attend
ancc is particularly requested measures Of i'm
por,aucc will be proposed.


The Individual will not be Merged in the


Mass.


One of the frs, and most erroneous ideas which
enters the minds Of People will regard to Asso-
,i.;ipn is that the Individual will be merged N
The slnss, that individual VIII and Liberty will be
,,,s,,i.,cd and made subservicn to The VIII and
CAPRICE of the community, that strict disci-
Mine and arbitrary rules exirt as is the case N
=lnonas,ic establishments and armies, to whrh
all will BIC subjected and that consequently all
individuality or personality wll be lost. Such an
idea is obnoxious in the highest degree to the
roird and if it were possible that Association
could lead to such result, we should most ccr-
tainly be among the first to condcmn 1t.


This opinion is entirely unounded In Asso-
cation there will be a full dcvclopcmcnt Of Indi
.dunl Churacer Tulcn,s and Capacities, com
bined however with Unity and Concert of Action;
a broad and noble field of activity will also be
opened to Individual Enorgy, while the genius and





objects aud enterprizc,--not wasted or msem-
plovcd as they now arc, in vile party in
,risucs aud political controversies in commercial
fiaud and ovcrrcaching, in monopolizins and OPP
pressive industry, and in petty litsations betwce
individuals and quarrcls and wars between ma
.ions


The first condition Of Liberty in Association Is
to allow people to come and go with tho most
rcrfcc, freedom. If person wishes to leave an
Association. he can do 80; he can dispose OF l'ls
stock to some of the members and 1t there be no
one who can buy it at the time, the ASSOCIATION
must keep reserved fund on hand for the Elr-
pose and take it of him at its full value. Pco-
PIE do not all possess this Liberty of changing To-
cation at present, for il person owns a farm, a
manu(uc,ory or a workshop, he cannot sell 1t at
dav's notice for it's full value. and so to some
other part Of the world with cash capital to
employ as he desires


he great and primary guarantee, however, OF
all individual Liberty is TO give every Chlld
thorough practical (industrieD and scientific Ed
ucation. which will call out and perfect all the
talents aud capacities with which Nature has en-
dowed it. If Child be left to grow up without
cdu1a.on, if i,s talents be smothered by igno-
rance, aud its character degraded by poverty and
perhaps rude treatment. it is outraged IN It's IN
most nature, robbed of its most precious rights
and morally ,yrannized. This is what happens to
the nne-,enths of children in the mort civllized
countries on the globe. If Individuals are not
merged at present in the mass, the rlalority Is
miscrably merged in poverty, ignoranccan and dcsra
=da,iou. Motor Being out of ten has II tenth
part o.. his capacities and faculties called OUT a
Raphael Mozart. Newton and tulton are
now lef, in vast majority OF cases 10 grow up
without anv development of their high talents
and become Poor lnborers, hircings and drudslns
mcnials There arc in Europe over hundred
millions of poor peasants very few OF whom can
ov., rcod or write. who know nothing OF art,
science or literature, and who are to'ilns IN pow
,ry and ignorance. but little above the level OF
the animals around them. In this country Tue
Mass that is the white population, arc oeues o'''
but their condition is growing gradually worst
Now we ask, is not the Individual IN our most aa-
yanced Societies merged in poverty and igno-





couraeement and aid and are not servants ana
hired laborere, who compose so large part ol
the population, subjected TO the caprice and con
troll of masters and employers which Is as bad as
being merged in the mass


Would Association leave the vast rnaJorlty OF
its Children to grow up in this way leave them
to grow |, in ignorance, without norai and m
icllqc,ual dcvelopcmcnt, and equal chances OF
commencing life and then give TO favored lew
education and knowledge, und the advantages OF
fortune-ior the most part 10 tratnpic down ana
pluudcr their less fortunate fellow creatures :
No this is not the manner Association would deal
with its Children a Social Providence,- the re-
Hex Of higher heavenly Providonce-wouid
guard over the tender years of infant Hnnan't!
AID guarantee to every member OF the human
family ,c,thom crception equal chances OF su-
perior practical scientific and moral education,
which would call out oil his talents and devcloPe
iully his character and then throw open to hlm
lhe broad field of Art, Science and Industry, and