Show boqi r one of the strongest reasons why Fourie rs theory of social life has made a practical sue fwee cess la that no experimental community which has grappled with the problem has been composed of people whose religion and politics U were the bame A community of property and an equality of social fjrank cannot exist merely by any arbitrary declaration or agreement of members the ultimate aim of life the belief in a future state the recognition of an ecclesiastical authority tho rity and the circumstances of of earthly government must all be viewed alike before the s ahers dream can be realized the thinkers who stand in the advance today to day acknowledge that the pres ent relations of man with his fellow and the present distribution of property are not of a character to produce the highest forms of hu man happiness and they claim that in the cobrae of evolution or eternal progression a change must be which shall permit of less between the rich poor 8 aristocrat and the lowly born so far aa worldly scientists have re 1 healed the method by which that stupendous result is to be achieved is buried in obscurity each theor aist upon the subject has his biar idea but when tested it always f lacks the essence of a lasting unity probably Tro bably the nearest approach atto a successful solution bathe omera viewing it simply from abo standpoint of human economy is chown by the chuc they are not socialistic in organization as the disciples of fourier would translate the term they have a community of political religious social and to a certain extent properly interests the innate nature of their system of life and the outside pressure induce adhesion and if their rela options are disrupted not there is but tM ittle doubt that by progression they will coyer the whole range of philosophic speculations until the scientists and reformers will tind in utah the example of a successful happy community john stuart mileto whose attention the peculiar nature of the life of the people here had been brought said that the government of the united states 1 could well afford to allow tho mor mona to goon undisturbed because odthe of their efforts in human experience laying aside for the moment the laws affecting social life which have been enacted bince the first mormon community was established in thia territory und for a previous or subsequent violation of which many of the peo aple are involved the idea of mill jia ft good one if are the era of any system of roar ariage which is inconsistent with the popular opinion it certainly la but one element out of many which their peculiar life daem fir corn pose aag it an evil more than one phil will advocate the adai sa ability of allowing the community to arlve the question without inter the number of people directly affected by the questions ja comparatively email longjaw Long jae fore an aj general their methods of life or their views could have demonstrated either failed as fourier and horace greeley failed or that they had discovered that wonderful essence of cohesiveness which could give to althe and human happiness a significance the solution of the problem has never before been attempted by any considerable number of people who f had so many points in common as have the cormons mormons Mor mons no other ex erimena eri ment was ever so near success until the question of direct governmental interference and ion usurped the place of indus rial thought and effort the people were in a fair way to demonstrate their power to combine in one comi all the necessary elements of bolfa sustenance it was the tangible exercise of the communistic which enabled them in a time of individual poverty to create general wealth the early canals mills and public buildings of the territory are a part of this wealth looking at tho experience of the people of utah it seems almost patent that an union of religious and political sentiment furnishes the missing feature of Fourie rs plan and that if the people could aft permit cd to progress 1 with their system of social relations the world might become infinitely wiser upon this subject of the regulation of wealth and the proper distribution and employment of capital |