THE FOURIER ASSOCIATIONS.—We have often expressed the opinion that these associations, based as they were on the integrity and rationality, not to say moral philosophy of their members, could not long hold together. There is no principle but that of divine christianity, based on the Gospel faith, capable of holding a community in mutual confidence and satisfaction. The reports of difficulties, disagreements and breaking up of several of the Fourier associations in various places, are no more than was rationally to be expected.
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