We have not room for quite all
the matter which he has sent us, but persuade ourselves that we have
retained every material statement, in spite of the omissions which we
find it necessary to make, to contract his paper to so much room as
we offered him.
Mr. Brisbane, in a prefatory note to his article, announces
himself as an advocate of the Social Laws discovered by CHARLES
FOURIER, and intimates that he wishes to connect whatever value
attaches to any statement of his, with the work in which he is
exclusively engaged, that of Social Reform. He adds the following
broad and generous declaration.
"It seems to me that, with the spectacle of the present misery
and degradation of the human race before us, all scientific
researches and speculations, to be of any real value, should have a
bearing upon the means of their social elevation and happiness. The
mass of scientific speculations, which are every day offered to the
world by men, who are not animated by a deep interest in the
elevation of their race, and who exercise their talents merely to
build up systems, or to satisfy a spirit of controversy, or personal
ambition, are perfectly valueless.
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