Human Physiology. 



toil, disease, wasting wars, general antagonism, oppression, and 

 misery. He believed that association would produce general 

 riches, honesty, attractive and varied industry, health, peace, 

 and universal happiness. Considering attractions and repul- 

 sions the governing forces of all nature, and that God has 

 distributed them for the happiness of all his creatures, he held 

 that 'attractions are proportional to destinies,' or that the 

 desires or passions of men, their aptitudes and inclinations, 

 if they could have free scope, would infallibly produce the 

 highest condition and greatest happiness of which they are 

 capable. He believed in a universal harmony, flowing from 

 and centering in God, the author of all harmonies, and that 

 there is therefore a principle of 'universal analogy.' Seeing 

 that all things, from suns and planets to atoms, range them- 

 selves in groups and series, according to certain fixed laws of 

 attraction and repulsion, he laboured to discover the kind of 

 human society that must eventually form itself in obedience to 

 those laws. This is the association or phalanstery, which is to 

 consist of 400 families or 1800 persons, which number he found 

 included the whole circle of human capacities. These should 

 live in one immense edifice, in the centre of a large and highly 

 cultivated domain, and furnished with workshops, studios, and 

 all the appliances of industry and art, as well as all the sources 

 of amusement and pleasure. When the earth is covered with 

 palaces of attractive industry, the associations will also unite in 

 groups and series, under a unitary government. There will be 

 but one language and one government, and the only armies 

 will be the great industrial armies, which will drain swamps, 

 irrigate deserts, plant forests, and effect the amelioration of 

 climates. The system of Fourier does not propose to destroy, 

 but rather to conserve property, position, and hereditary rights, 

 nor does it war directly with morals or religion. The property 

 of the association is to be held in shares, and the whole pro- 

 duct of the industrial and artistic groups- is to be divided into 



