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suppose that there is destiny proportional TO
those passional perrersionS, TO suppose, for ex-
ample, that man who has love for intoxication,
was destined BY Nature to De dru nkard; or that
some men were destined to be thieves, because
there are individuals in our societies who steal
An intelligent discrimination is necessary in sepa-
rating true and collective attractions from acci-
dental and deranged deveopements of passions.
Those collective and universal Attract ons and
Impulses, which we find existing at all times, and
common to ali Mankind are oracles of truth-ale
all Index placed within US by higher Hand,
which point Us invariably toward our Destiny, as
the magnet points toward the pole. Our collect
i've Attractions are expressi0ns Of the Intention
of The Creator, arho has siren them TO us, and
ne may therefore sag, that they are a per uanent
revelai.on sithin rs Of has mil. They impel US
ON 10 fluff! oar Destiny ard in true Social Or
der they would direct ris hty IN embelhshing
material nature, in living in harmony with our tel.
low creatures, and in commuhing nobly with God
and his universal creation.


Had the Creator destined US to the present So
cial System, me ought To have given US Attrac-
tions for the poverty injustice and monoteny which
exist in it, and which the unavoidable lot OF
the great majority, so that would have found
our happiness 10 them Bat it is in the revolt OF
the Passions asans, odious societies, that we


find condemnation OF those societies, and proof
that they are NOT the Social Destiny Of Man,
If we attribute solely to tae Passions the vices,
crimes and disorders Of sociery. must suppose
that the Creator has given the Human Race At


fractions for vice, crime and discord. In so doing
| he would have violated all his laws of order and


harmony, and placed mans demoniao being in the
| midst of his creation.


The condemnation Of human nature in order to
excupa,e society, has been universal error OF
Moraisss, Philosophers and Politicians. 1t is
rirne it was recti6ed man, the WeRk of the Di-
viniry. shuuld become the standard by which the
social organization should be JUDGED; be should
nn, be sacrificed to, measured by the standard
.,f our arbitrary societies and false institutions
,he work of accidental circumstances and human
Legislation.


Every epoch believes its own form of soeiery
good; and this belief which is found 0l.ke strong