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We have received letter from highly esteemed
friend of the Cause in which we are engaged, in
which he asks some questions others, the
following:


/" First, then, we may inquire il the Passions, or
impulses of the Will only require suitable dis
position of circumstances and adaptation of OBJ
lccts, TO insure their deveopement according 10
Divine Order from n Lar If inherent Harmony,
why was it oecdful that the Eternal Word should
be manifested iu our humanity for its redemption
from the powers OF evil. end for opening a me
dium through which the Divine influence might
become operative for It's regeneration ! Does
your philosophy of Man overlook this fundamental
FACT, bv virtue of which alone Man is in state
70 he reformed or mas it discovered some otter
name or manifestation bywhich he is to be saved


To ,his question, VIC make the general answer
below 1, would require, to enter into fuIl ex-
qlanaton OF this important subject. several art'-
cles; it would be necessary to explain fully the
nature OF Man and the functions assigned BY God
TO the various Faculties and Passions which he
has given him. and point out the precise nature
of the great moral object which Christ had IN
yiew, which was the suPerposiriop cf ths higher
sentiments and faculties in Man, particularly the
love of God and the love Of Mankind. over the
sensual and Individual or personal impulses


l. The Depravty of Man is treated by the Scrip
lures ss a fact, and not RecesSlty 1t ,ras, it
TO great extent is but we are not told hatit ever
must be. On the contrary, we are expressly as
surcd that the time to be. when g All shall know
the Lord rom the least to the greatest. This
must implv time when the depravity of Human
Nature, oven in lis earliest stages. shall have been
overcome.


.. The statement that certain great scientific
truths developed by Fourier, will if faithfully in
ves'igated and put in practice, abolish evil and
misery no more rlilitates with the universally
md necessity of the Christian dspensation than
does the Temperance Reform. We say that if
men would refrain from strong drink and trem
lusting after what is their neighbor's, that they
would be happy and pure, but we do not mean
that they would be 50 acitAout Christianity, but
that in this they would BE practical Christians
SO through all We do not propose Social Re
form as substitute for or rival of Religion, but
as the reduction to practice Of the truths Of Re-
Agion so far as they apply to our Social Or
caut7ation Association is Christianity applied
to Society, just as Love and Charity are Chris
tlamly appl1ed 10 Our ordinury ieia,is"- "i.i.
fellow men, In other words, it is not to destroy
the law but to fulfil.


The friends of Association have never proposed
it as a Religion or something to take the place of
Religion, but as system of Social Philosophy
perfectly consistent with the Christian Revelation.