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The Dayton IrIHscriPf, published at Dayton
Ohio, has contained lately Series OF Seven very
able Articles upon Association. They from
ths pen Of an enlarged mind, which has examined
the subjec; with particular reference to Religion
We will give his concluding remarks. and regret
very much that we have rot space sufficient 10
publish the whole.


But it j. time TO close there remarks by the mere
expression Of The opinion | promised ot Fourier,
system--it Is this According 10 one ot the law.
of philOsophisins laid down by the prince of phi
losophers. we ought never to multiply the causes
for any effect which can be- sufficiently accountable
bv one. And As attraction has been demons strated
to be- the universal law OF nature. | Sc no good
reason for rejecting il in the mechanism of the So
eial system. The s0ereigs measures which have
been pursued in every form Of society by lcgisla-
tive enactments since the golden age of the world,
have been withis the last half century g.ing out
OF fashion, until the legal code Of every enllsht-
ened nation has become stripped Of many Of it.
horrors from which fact 1t may be- fnrl, inferred
that in the last period Of civilization. when the
clouds OF superstition and irnoranc. shall be fully
dispecd, al barbarous customs will also disap-
pear.


Why is thi- # it be not that al cocrrire r'-
strainfs finally fn g'"> ~-E Ict'ir t' '"'iai4''
of the prince 0f peace whose 90 people are 20 br
willing people, and voluntarily act out Of ail iho
en6rqies of their natures This in q word, IL 20
be The happy result OF all the preliminary pro-
ccsses of refinement from the savage custom, which
have marked every period # civilization, up 20
the dawn of that latter day glory when all from
the least to the greatest shall have the Law writ
ten upon their hearts ard Will voluntarily and viih
alacrty obey il. Fourer's plan OF Association
may therefore be nationally deemed the lupihou-
prospectus of an earthly paradise which, when
once regained will not be 50 likely TO be again lost
by the ruin of mans Proprium, (sethood, corual
miuded,) tor a ncw vii. and a new understands
ing vii be given 10 him Nor do | think i;
tra,agant to say. that this new plan Of " Associa-
tiou ought to be hailed, the natural basis for
the New Jerusalem which is now beginning To dn-
sccnd from God out Of Heaven, through the higher
principles of the hunas mind.