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PART SIXTH.

FALSE CONDITIONS.

THE ESSENCE OF DIVINE LOVE IS WITHIN ALL.

Man is entitled to liberty, plenty and happiness by nature. To be in accordance with nature, man must study the geometrical attributes of, and the mechanism manifested in, all things. There is a constitutional and mutual attraction and affection manifested between every particle and compound in being; as in matter, so in mind.

The law of association is the mode of perpetual progress, the cause of happiness and the spring of all life and energy, of all passion and gratification. Therefore diversity is the order of nature, the requirement of man and the foundation of harmony. Use condenses and harmonizes, so that ultimately, the fortunes and misfortunes of selfishness will be no

more.

Civilization is caused by primitive invention incited by necessity and subsequent cultivation of social and intellectual powers. Mankind cannot be good when influences are evil; neither can he be perfect when he is imperfectly constituted; and he cannot be perfectly constituted until the laws of his being are better understood.

Every one must become acquainted with their own nature and the Creator's laws, which inseparably unite and harmonize all created things. Every son and daughter, as early as they can be taught anything, should be taught to know

and respect the part which he or she is to perform in the deep, mysterious process of perpetuating the human race. No appetites, no pleasures, no occupation, should be allowed to interfere to disqualify them to prepare and develop the most perfect germs of the most perfect men and women. When every one feels the force of these truths, they will be prepared to remove a part of the disease which now corrupts our physical and mental constitution.

Every one is entitled to a position determined by the qualities and abilities of his constitution. No one should be inferiorly situated, because such a condition is not in accordance with nature and the order of Divine creations. Every one should be as harmoniously situated as the notes in a wellarranged piece of music.

The low must be brought to elevation. No faculty should be crushed for want of mental liberty. The largest part of our nature is feeling or consciousness, over which knowledge has but a partial control; and no person, however versed in science and knowledge, is saved from substitutions, except through a principle of justice, which springs from and belongs to the soul's executive department. Conscience rather than fear, dominates the person who is superior to mere prudentialism, who feels a liberty, an attraction, to leave the wrong and do the right.

In doing right, man is not only doing himself a reasonable service, but, through his benevolence and justice, making the race a valuable gift. A man must not only fear the re-action of wrong-doing on himself, but feel too noble and too just to injure any one or cause any one's unhappiness.

Society seeks isolated rather than the general good. But the true relations of men to each other, based on the nature of things, must take the place of antagonisms. We should inquire into every method of improvement, and study how to

promote the welfare and happiness of all. Every human being has a legitimate claim upon our sympathy.

The grand foundations of Rights have been slowly and painfully builded. The fetters which bind the body may be unspeakably wrong and deplorable, but those which bind the soul are incomparably more ruinous. This bondage is chained ignorance.

SOCIETY IS FULL OF WORN AND WEARY WORKERS.

Working constantly merely to sustain the body is unnatural and wrong; and the world will live in discord and dissatisfaction so long as this is required. Wretchedness and wickedness are twin children of one parent.

Any wrong done to the lowest, re-acts to the hurt of the highest. Some efficient plan must soon be instituted to relieve the poor man from his oppressive disadvantages, to give him a fair and equal chance to enjoy his existence; to emancipate him from mountainous interests and antagonisms that now oppress and keep him in bondage to poverty; or we shall experience rebellions and turmoils and revolutions. in our social and judicial departments which neither wealth nor eloquence can ever allay. Hunger, the terrific necessity of life, carries with it the right of gratification. In the animal it knows no limitation. It is the fundamental right, equivalent to that of existence. In man, the rights of the appetites are subject to the limitation of his superior faculties. The individual is confined in his sphere by that of other individuals. He must never transcend it and trespass on the rights of others. The first law of right is limited in man by benevolence, for labor must not be at the expense of others.

Man is accountable to the fixed order of nature expressed through her laws. The cause of human action is centered

in these three-love or desire, necessity and interest. Necessity is the desire ungratified, or the requirements unsatisfied. Interest is the spring of action, and is a means by which love is rewarded, by which desires are gratified and necessities supplied. By a proper organic effort, intelligence and capital will be aggregated, which will be potent in diffusing general intelligence, and intelligence will make itself felt in all the primary departments of life. In these primary departments, power is generated for the shaping of legislation, which is but the voice of the people expressed, and is always intended for their best interest.

No tear should be shed in consequence of hunger or disconsolation. We should mingle mercy with justice, and the sternest precepts of philosophy with the softer dictates of sensibility and compassion. We should banish the lust of worldliness and individual thrift at another's expense. Interests are conflicting, and men sacrifice their real dignity of character and moral worth by engaging in every species of fraud, imposition and cruel speculation; and that, too, as practiced and imposed upon a multitude of beings who are confined to labor of the most oppressive character, both in the fields and in the workshops. Man should not labor incessantly or excessively to sustain unjust responsibilities, or be in any way deprived of his physical or mental require

ments.

Excessive labor dwarfs the mind and weakens the body. There must be a decrease in the hours of labor and drudgery, and an increase of earnings or compensation. Work in the morning and weariness at night isolate man from the world and its progress, and engenders social ostracism.

The interest of one person should not be in direct opposition to another. It is impossible for a man to act without an interest; as society now exists, he will injure some and

benefit others, and if not directed aright, produce unhappy consequences. He is immorally situated whose duty tells him one thing and his interests another, and who is obliged to suppress the general principles of his nature in order to preserve his individual interests.

Necessity and interest are conflicting. The poor are those who are born amid circumstances opposed to their nature and its requirements. Poverty is necessity unsupplied. All these evils arise from the fact that labor is unrewarded and unappreciated for its full value. Every kingdom with all its wealth, owes its birth to the incessant industry of the injured and unrewarded poor.

No man should live upon the misfortunes of his fellowman. Whoever, either by force or address or by dissimulation, obtains that which is, or ought to be, the property of another, is guilty of crime.

Small wages for hard labor, creates a spirit of antagonism. Hostility is constantly being generated by the disaffection for each other's welfare. Success to the employer should be success to the employe.

Oppress not to the uttermost a single heart, for a solitary sigh has power to overturn a whole world. None should suffer for want of just appreciation, none should be without the solace of human compassion.

There are certain scenes in real life which would defy all the labored efforts of the most finished artist. There is many an article of luxury, many a senseless toy, which, if our eyes could be opened, would be seen to bear the traces of tears and sorrow.

THE HARD LOT IS TO BE SOFTENED.

Day by day the lot of the laborer becomes harder and harder, and to achieve success, more difficult. Everything is grasped and will not be relinquished. The many who are

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