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years after that ' The New Christianity.' To these 

 have to be added two periodicals entitled respectively 

 ' L'Organisateur ' (1819-20) and ' Le Producteur ' (1825). 

 These titles mark sufficiently the change and develop- 

 ment of his ideas. From laying stress upon abstract 

 science he proceeds to an appreciation of its practical 

 results in industry and commerce, taking note of the 

 various industrial problems, of the necessary organisa- 

 tion of labour as well as of finance, and latterly he 

 realises that a unifying and spiritual principle is want- 

 ing, and thus is led to emphasise the Fine Arts as 

 the guardians of the moral sentiments, pre-eminently of 

 sympathy. And with this he is led to the problems of 

 education. He ends, as a great many social reformers 

 have done, with the re-assertion of many of the religious 

 factors of society which his earlier theories had tended 

 to undermine or to disregard. He passes in review the 

 historical forms in which the Christian ideal has been 

 embodied, that of Catholicism, of Protestantism and of 

 other sects, and preaches the religion of Love ; " in fact 

 he thinks that a single principle must be held to be 

 eternal and immutable, that which has emanated from 

 a Divine source, and according to which we are bound 

 to treat one another as brethren." l With this principle 

 we advance from an individual to a social existence. 

 " He remarks that the Christian principle, disengaged 

 from superstitions which paralyse its efficiency, works 

 already in many noble souls, if not among the priests 

 who are absorbed in details of dogma and cult and 



1 Loc. cit., p. 23. 



