These observations, of course, equally apply to all the associative
attempts, now attracting so much public attention; and perhaps most
especially to such as have more of Fourier's designs than are
observable at Brook Farm. The slight allusion in all the writers of the
"Phalansterian" class, to the subject of marriage, is rather
remarkable. They are acute and eloquent in deploring woman's oppressed
and degraded position in past and present times, but are almost silent
as to the future. In the meanwhile, it is gratifying to observe the
success which in some departments attend every effort, and that Brook
Farm is likely to become comparatively eminent in the highly important
and praiseworthy attempts to render labor of the hands more dignified
and noble, and mental education more free and loveful. C. L.
ASSOCIATIVE ARTICLES.
_"Association the Body of Christianity" by John S. Dwight._
The world has been divided between infidels and bigots. In Association
there will be neither, for it will remove their causes. The framework
of society is false which drives to such extremities. For most
assuredly these opposites proceeded from one common centre, and will
most gladly gravitate back again to that, so soon as the general order
becomes just and genial to the real character and purpose of each
individual soul.
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