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20 We give below extract from another let
ter; it is from Clergyman, (Episcopalian,) a man
of high order of talent and of high standing:


"I am now in the midst of Fouriers Quatre
Mouuements,' (the name of Fourer's FIRST work, }
an apocalypse of splendor albeit revealed thus far
only in glinpses, which stimulate ones mental
vision to still farther research and make the soul
wish itself Imprisoned that it might bathe in this
ocean of glory. The appetite of curiosity here


grows by what j. feeds on; : and have that free
dom from prejudices which will enable me to read
without hypercriticism his NEST strange disco-
sures or to dissent from his assertions should their
truth be not emonstrated-impressed as am
with admiration for his integrity his originality,


his philosophy, his poetic inspiration, and MS soli-
tary genius How his soul must have plunged
into all sciences, and dared ali depths and nights,
and tramped on all the fustian fabrics of false phi


osophy and tritc, threadbare literature! Attimes
I have suspected him possibly familiar with the
wisdom OF India, where magnetism, and the COM
pass, and a true astronomy, were known long be-
fore their pretended discovery in Europe but then
he betrays elsewhere seeming ignorance of ori.
entail literature, which proves bis simplicity of pur-
pose, and leaves YOU astonished at the ceiaciden-
ces. The defect in his spirit which most adj
dresses my regret is his utter contempt for the
philosophical and political leaders of the world,
and existing notions and habits. Now, if we grant
these to be all wrong, and dreadful hindrances to
our Acknowledgement and the worlds speedier hap
pncss, this is not the means of convincing or per-
suading the erroneous. Many will cling TO false
hood for fear of famine, and must be insured bread
before thev dare be honest; but the nlajority-l
am satisfied, the Infinite majority-are either to-
tallv ignorant, or else blind with the auaurosis
of prejudice, which will not lie. them see. Civil
zation is the period of indisence, rosuery and op-
preston That is what the societary writers truly
say; and it lacks no proof. Well, the indigencei is
afraid of oppression, and both afraid of rogGesy
when new scheme is broached. The intrigue,
the chicaLery, the vulpne ecunnng-alot; OF IN
posing hunibugs-ha7e made experience dislrust,
and observation cowardice. Thay live as they
live, wherever the few suspect the truth, because
,ley are on the rack of misery; and few heroes
have lived from whom falsehood-any thing you
please to dictate-eould not be expressed, when
they were agonized by the tortures of the rack.
Bur the immense mass are, in relation to the faint
est twilight of the doctrine Of Association, enyel
sped IN mist of ignorance as imPenesrabls as the
shades of Cimneria or the midnight Of Egypt