than this is the common school; for it is the fountain at which the mind drinks, and it is refreshed and strengthened for its career of usefulness and glory."

More education, less legislation, is loudly demanded Do not think that this world is to be elevated by governmental arrangements, by improved codes of common law, and more liberal legislation. Far from it. If I can place any confidence in the sweet, yet strong, impressions which enter the superior faculties of my being, then I tell you the truth, when I affirm, that man's rights can be secured, not by making new laws, but by repealing those, already in effect, which are found to militate against, and positively to conflict with, the natural rights, liberties, and sovereignty of the individual. Remember, friends of Progress, that IT IS THE ABSENCE OF BAD LAWS, the abrogation of all complicated legislation and rule, which will secure individual liberty, and social unity, in America, or in any other country.

General Education, I repeat, is needed; not in the spiritless doctrines of Sectarianism, but in the vitalizing doctrines of Liberty, Fraternity, and Unity. For Ignorance is prevalent in all countries. It deforms and degrades men; keeps them under the dominion of sense; makes them slaves to the caprices of ambitious rulers; fills them with superstitions; and renders man the mere circumstance of physical being!

When I gaze upon the nations, my soul sickens at the triumph of Ignorance, the demon of Gehenna, the imp of darkness, whose only food is sadness, sorrow, desperation, and woe; going from cradle to cradle, from hovel to palace, roaring like a lion; filling the world with foes, and fanatics, with crimes, cruelty, and idiocy; while, at the same time, there is so much to bless and refine man: the vaulted heavens, the prodigal earth, the neighboring Land of Spirits, and the abiding presence of Supernal Love and Truth! And I say truly, when I affirm, that the Roman Catholic and Protestant systems of religion lend their influence, in different ways, to foster a certain kind of ignorance, and to perpetuate the existing social falsities.

From all this, therefore, you are, kind reader, admonished to break away. Arise in the strength of your manhood, and be the pioneer-first to explore and people the "land of promise; " be the friend of education. The population of France, as it comes to me, can read about four in ten; the population of England, one in seven; in Prussia, one person in eleven; in Russia, one in three hundred and fifty; but in this country, thanks to the blessings of incipient liberty, the people are nearly all able to read!

Here, then, we have a foundation to work upon. The people can read truth as easily as error. Go forth,

therefore, ye "Harmonial Brothers,"-go forth! teach your brethren the Principles of Nature, and expand their minds into unity and strength! Let Universal Justice be emblazoned on your banners; and teach the people to distinguish the means by which the greatest happiness may be secured to the greatest number. And in proportion as the people become enlightened in truthful principles, so will they repeal bad laws, make government more unitary, and live more comprehensive lives. In this way you can hasten the "new dispensation," far more than by any isolated embryo organization of social interests.

Do you still ask, "How should we go to this work? What means employ?"

Again, and again-the spirit-world exclaims, and adopts as a principle, that—

Every human being has a right to the possession and enjoyment of FOUR CONDITIONS:

First: A farm without mortgage.
Second: A home without discord.
Third: A country without slavery.
Fourth A religion without creeds."

These conditions can be secured only by and through Organic Liberty. Liberty is the parent of Anarchy wherever it is entertained as a mere sentiment,-as a poem or as a song, in the savage mind. The salvation of

the world lies in "Organic Liberty." And America is destined to bring this saviour into being; it will be born in a manger; but the kings of the earth shall bow before its simple grandeur and majesty! America, in her present state, is but the representative of TRANSITIONAL REPUBLICANISM AND SENTIMENTAL FREEDOM! is the cause of so much political antagonism,—of so much party vice and deception! And this is the cause, also, of the strength of foreign despotism; the sneers of kings and slaveholders at American institutions.

This

In order to secure Organic Liberty, as exhibited in the Principles of Nature, you are admonished to form yourselves into a

HARMONIAL BROTHERHOOD,

whose Politics and Religion will be one and the same thing. The government will permit no monopolizing of the land by the few, to the injury of the many; and will arrange all kinds of industry so concordantly with individual attractions and qualifications, as that a just remuneration for it will no longer be the degrading incentive to labor, as now, but its accompaniment; for, when properly arranged, Industry is Happiness. These conditions, as I am impressed, can be attained by adopting forthwith, as a Band of Brothers, certain instrumentalities, now in being, as your weapons.

First: Free Speech, unlimited discussion.

Second: Free schools for the masses.

Third: Freedom of the press, by the fecundating power of which, you may shower upon the people the evangels of peace on earth, in the shape of newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, tracts of the hour, and songs of Truth.

Fourth: Free churches and honest teachers.

Fifth And Nature's own religion.

Dear reader, do you not see your field-your glorious work-your means of warfare? I do not undertake to disguise the design, which is given me to feel, that your Harmonial Philosophy must be your politics and your religion!

In conclusion, let me remark, that, with these PRINCIPLES in your souls, inspiring you with the desire to make universal Love the bridal companion of universal Wisdom, you should exercise "the right of suffage." By so doing, and using the means already specified, you may refine sentiment, and advance public policies; purge the existing parties of their gambling propensities, and thereby destroy them root and branch; and secure correcter conclusions on all public questions. And so, friends of humanity! so you may learn the masses to venerate the Principles of Universal Truth and Unity;