The Phalanx will assume
responsibility for the welfare of each member from birth to death. The
provision of Mutual Guarantees will insure to each a good home, good
living, good education for the young, good care for the aged and good
opportunities for work and for recreation while life lasts. Each one
will be perfectly free to follow those congenial pursuits the
attractions of which are proportioned to his destiny. The final
consummation as announced by Fourier in his third axiom, will be the
Unity of Man with God, with Man, and with Nature.
The apostle of Fourierism in America was Albert Brisbane. By nature a
humanitarian and by earnest study a profound scholar, he recognized a
germ of truth in the theory of the Transcendentalists that humanity is
suffering from evils which if not remedied must result in disaster. The
remedy he found in Socialism. While sojourning in France he came under
the personal influence of Charles Fourier and, was a member of the
circle of converts drawn around the founder of Socialism--not the
political Socialism of to-day, be it again said, but the Socialism of
1840, devoted to the reorganization of civilized society, on a
scientific basis; the re-formation of human institutions under the
universal Serial Order.
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