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| the controlling or governing power Vi h"iioh 81
cieries; and we may say that up 70 the present
time the whole social science of Mankind has
bear TO combat against, human nature and the
! passions. The result ha, Lean to degrade Man
| in his own eyes and sanction the doctrine Of -ba-
man perrersity. This fatal error, this outrage
against the Author of the passions, has become
| the broad principle upon which series of socie-
ties has been based. whose depsrable practical
results, such as Ignorance, Fraud, Oppression and
Carnage are faithful deyelopements OF their false
| foundation.


The Providence Of God is Universal, and
! extends to the SeciuI Or2anization as


well us to the Material World.
| IF the Creator has assigned to Man the noble
function of OvERSEER Of the Globe; if be has
n,rusted to him the cultivation of its surface, the
beautifying of material Nature, and regulation OF
the vast scale of Creation, which extends from him
down through 40 many series to inert matter,-it
the Creator has done all this, is it not probable
thet he has included in has procidential fore
sight the Organization Of Society, which directs
Man rightly wrongly in his career on this earth
The system of Society exercises an immense inhu
ence upon the beings who live under it. Our resent
false Societies direct the Human Race to Conflicts
Of all kinds. and to War; whereas Association
would produce Concert of Action and Unity OF
Interests, ent direct them to the fulhlment Of
! their Destiny


The Providence OF God eztcnds to the Social
as cell as TO the Material World. He has not
given US moral and physical organization un-
suited to our terrestrial Destiny; he has given
US Passions as iapeng power, without adapt


ing them to system of Society which would en-
ploy them usefully and produce Order and Harmony


Industry, viewed in its noblest application, s the
| great means by which Man nccomplishes his trust
OF Ovsrseer. Destined to it, placed upon the earth
to exercise it, how we suppose for moment
that the Creator has not adapted his Passions, Ia
stincts and Attractions it, and its occupations
which he knew would occupy SO important por-
ton of Mans life. Can reasonably suppose that
he intended it should be exercised in the present
repugnan,, mono,onous and degrading nanner-a
scourge to the laboring populations on whom its
burden falls7


| "God aloue," says Fourier, is invested with
the power of distributing Attraction; he wishes
to guide the Universe and his creatures only by
attraction: and to attach US to Industry-that is,
agricultural and manufacturing Labor-he has
composed system of ATTRACTIVE INDUSTRY,
which, once organized, will give charm to our
industrial occupations, and attach to them entiee-
ments greater than arc those Of balls and theatres
at present I'm other words, people in Association
will find so much that is pleasing and stimulating
in their branches of work, exercised in groups,
that they would not leave them for amusments,
like the above, proposed during the hours OF their
industrial occupations


! ..Up TO the present time political and morul
sciences have not dreamed of rendering Industry
attractive to enchain the Mass TO labor, they have
discovered no other means, after Slavery, than the
fear of want and starvation ; if however, Industry
is the destiny which assigned to US by the Creator
4 how can we think he would wish to force US to it
put in play some more noble lever, some stimu-


liant capable of transforming its occupations into
pleasures"


1t must be so; and let Man comprehend that the
Providence of the Divinity extends to the social,
well as to the material world that he has pre-
calculated system of Society adapted to Man,
and which, when ence discovered and established,
will direct him rightly the earth, and human
intelligence will have made an important progress
1t will stand upon foundation where it can judge
calmly the question of great social change--a
question which cannot roo be judged, because
TIE minds of men are obscured by Of preju-
dces relating to the depravity of Human Nature,
and the eternal continuance of Evil, and because
they have not integral faith in the universally of
| Gods Providence.


! Man is g compound being, possessed of Passions
and Attractions, and complicated physical
organization. These elements of the human
machine were not created at random, without
method and order, and with all the chances of


their being perpetualy in conflict and discord
with each other. Suppose machnst were to
construct machine without any plan, making lis
wheels and springs without calculating their uses
would we not believe him crazy? How, then,
think that the great Mechanist of the Universe
has given those poweaJul impulses, those
springs of action called Passions, without calcu-
lating their efects,-withort adapting them TO
some Social Order, preexisting in his divine Intel
ligence which would make use OF them all, as so
many parts of perfect mechanism!


1t cannot be otherwise :. having the experience
of millions of worlds anteriorly created, he cal
cuated with mathematical precision the action and
developments of those Passions. If they at
present condemned as depraved and vicious, it is
because Science has not discovered the Social Or
! der intended for them, and has considered their
false development in our defective Societies as
their true


Ii must be acknowledged, however, that Science
has committed g. most puerile error in expressing