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They have , on the contrary , developments that are bizarre and inherent in their property of being steered by seven united dominants ; hence arises ill their case the superdominant unityism , producing effects that are very strange , and more valuable than brilliant . They can by no means reconcile themselves with the civilizee order , which thwarts their development in every direction . Nature only gives one couple of them for a union of phalanges containing 29 , 222 persons ; none of them have ever been seen in the eminent posts of civilization . "
Elsewhere Fourier cites himself as the only specimen of an omnigyne he had ever known 3 qualifying the apparent egotism by saying that omnigynity is by no means a character to be vain about , and that the amiable qualities are entirely on the side of the Heptagynes . Society is at present so constructed that all the varieties of character are jumbled and dashed against each other in the most destructive possible manner . No passion can have fair play : no character can do its best . But in the process of time this will be remedied . By the necessity of its
nature , human society must pass regularly through eight stages in succession . 1 . Edenism , or simple confused passional series . 2 . Savageism . 3 . Patriarchism . 4 . Barbarism . 5 . Civilization . 6 . Guaranteeism . 7 . Simple Passional Harmony . 8 . Compound Passional Harmony . We are at present only in the fifth stage , that of Civilization , though touching at some points on the period of Guaranteeism . Fourier has no words of contempt strong enough for Civilization , and its systems , which he calls Civilizee Metaphysics , Civilizee Gibberish , and the like .
In that stale of Harmony to which the human race is gradually approaching , and which will be brought in by a series of cosmical changes , affecting the constitution of all the planets , society will be organized in such a manner that each character , Monogyne , Digyne , Heptagyne , or whatever it may be , shall have unbounded scope , and yet all shall be richer , happier , and more mutually helpful . Cities , villages , & c , will be done away ; and the social unit will be the Phalanx , consisting of some 1600 individuals of both sexes , all busy according to their respective tastes , and all enjoying material luxury . The Phalanxes again will be associated into groups , so that the whole world will be covered with one vast network of Phalanxes bound
together by devices for their general government . The organization of each Phalanx , and of all the Phalanxes in combination , will be such that every individual human being will be simply called upon to gratify his passions , conscious that by so doing he will be performing the best service to humnanity , and the highest function of his being . One of Fourier ' s great ideas is this , of the necessity of settling every man only to that species or to those species of occupation , to which his natural bent leads him , and which he can do with pleasure . All work ought to be pleasurable ( attrayant ) , and done with enthusiasm ; and it is on the anticipation that this will be the case in the state of Harmony , that he founds his calculation of the enormous
increase of produce that labour will then produce , compared with what is produced at present . The foregoing exhibits the mere meagre skeleton of the work before us . The volumes abound with expositions , analyses , and collateral dissertations , of which we have taken no notice . Many parts of the book are extremely lively and interesting ; others almost defy perusal . On the whole , the value of the book will consist , not in its acceptability as a systematic treatise—no human soul could accept Fourier ' a system—but in its containing many happy conceptions and ingenuities
which readers of any set of opinions whatever may gladly avail themselves of , and work up in their own language . There in real merit , for example , in that attempt of Fourier ' s to clasaify the different kinds of character according to certain primitive dominants ; and one might borrow a uneful hint from it . Of Fourier ' s terminology we cannot speak highly . It is rarely felicitous ; and it in often so vitiated by contradictory associations aa to be quite confusing . It may have helped himself , but
Heeins by n , o nieaiiH to be essentially connected with anything' that in useful in his notions . Lastly , as regards the general impression left by the book , wo should eay that it paints forth the author ixa tin extremely fertile , laborious , and original man , capable , notwithstanding Iuh craze , of casting shrewd and powerful glances horizontally all round ; but somewhat gross in his conceptions of what is desirable for mankind , and with little of the upward touch , little of the noble or divine in his constitution . Mr . Morell seems to have performed his task admirably . Nor is thie a slight praise . Nono but
a man of superior mind and acquirements could have translated such a work intelligibly ; none but a careful man could have done it so faithfully . The only objection we have to make to Mr . Morell ' s work as a translator is that his explanatory notes do not occur at the right places—a word , for example , sometimes occurring in the text page and after page , which is at last explained in a foot note distant a hundred pages or more from the place of its first appearance . Mr . Doherty ' 8 sketch of Fourier ' s life and his preliminary dissertation and notes are useful additions to the work .
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Books On Our Table. History Of England F...
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE . History of England for Junior Classes , frith Questions for Examination at the end of each Chapter . Edited by Henry White , B . A ., Trinity College , Cambridge . Simpkin and Marshall . As a manual of English History , this is a carefully compiled little work : beginning with the landing of Caesar , and ending with the Sikh war of 1850 . Without attempting totfnculcate political opinions , it steers pretty clear of those stereotyped prejudices which are almost universal in such works , and which are so very pernicious to the cause of truth and freedom—we allude to the " martyrdom of Charles I . " as an example , wherein boys are always taught to see wicked rebellious subjects beheading the most pious and exemplary of kings ! Mr . White does not " take sides" with either party ; he contents himself with a brief condensation of the facts . The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl . By Adalbert von Chamieso . With a Vocabulary and Copious Notes . By Falck Lebalin . Simpkin and Marshall . Another aid to students of German , and an excellent one- ! First , we have the incomparable fiction with which Chamisso charmed Europe , and a very full vocabulary of words and idioms , then some valuable notes on peculiarities and difficulties occurring in the text . We advise such of our readers as have the least smattering of German to read the story first , which the vocabulary will enable them to do , and , having thus obtained a rough knowledge' of the language ( for this one book will give it them ) , they should study the Notes on the peculiarities .
Fifty Lessons on the Elements of the German Language . By A . Heimann , Ph . D ., Professor of the German Language and Literature in the University College , London . D . iMutt , Dr . Heimann is one of the most accomplished and popular of our German teachers , and he here puts forth the method which he has so long followed . The lessons are so arranged that the whole of the grammar instead of being " committed to memory" is committed to practice by its distribution over the whole fifty lessonseach lesson opens with a vocabulary , then follow
exercises on that vocabulary . The verb of course forms the chief part of each lesson—round it are grouped all the rules of declension , cases , and construction . We should expect to find the pupil making rapid and efficient progress on this plan . The only modification that occurs to us is this : at present the pupil is exercised in translating English at once into German , but we think if , between the vocabulary and the exercise , there were placed some German sentences formed from the vocabulary , the mas tery would be more rapid .
Orations . By the Reverend John W . Lester , B . A . Pickering-There are sixteen papers in this little volume which Mr , Lester thinks are " most appropriately" called " Orationa , " because they are not Essays , nor are thev simple and spiritual enough for sermons . We think " Rhapsodies" would be a better title for the work . It is Rhapsody foaming at the mouth . It writhes , it splutters , it rants , it raves . We seldom see such affluence of diction throwing its ermined robe over such biggary of thought : in this respect the book is a curiosity . Although we must condemn the staple of common place , varied by outbursts of foolishness , which forms the matter , and also condemn the tawdry taste of the
manner , we cannot push this book aside without a word in acknowledgment of the rhetorical vehemence and rhythmic power often displayed . There is something of an orator in Mr . Lester—the accent , the rhythm , the language , the trick of a fine p layer hao been caupht , though the earnestness and geniuH be wanting . Considered as Rhapsodies they are decidedly striking ; and will doubtless elicit from the provincial press hyperboles of praise similar to those which he has had the foolish immodesty to place at the end of his book , as having been bestowed upon Inn former work ! The very want of senHO , taste , and sagacity which makes him parade those " opinions of the press "—as if to bully \ m into admiration—makes his present work worthless .
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Statement of the Present Cujie Case . Addicted to the Society for Reform of Colonial ( lov «! rnment . 14 y ( J . 14 . Aildcrley . M . I ' J . W . Parker . Cautions for the 7 'imtn . Addnsm'd to tho I ' arinliioiiorH of a ritrlnli in Kiiulitiid . liy their former Keeloi . IN'oh . I and £ . J . W . Parker . Lelio : a Fitiion of Reality , lltrrvor : and Other Poems . By Put rick Hiiolt . Clmpinun and Mull . llomitn Catholicism ; / wing an Historical and l . ugcntl Ueview < its Vital 1 ' otition anil Present Claims in Eniilttnd . By ; i tt :
irrinl Social and Moral Condition of the Pcoplo . Hy Lord li . S vola . T . C . Nowby . The Piston of the Falican . A Satire . By I . 1 . I . A . W . 8 tr « inge . Claudia : Drama en Trots Actes et en prose , l ' ur Goorgti Hand W . Julia
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We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , foe the Useful encourages itself . — Gobthb .
To Layard, Discoverer Of Babylon And
TO LAYARD , DISCOVERER OF BABYLON AND
NINEVEH . No harps , no choral voices , may enforce The words I utter . Thebes and Elis heard Those harps , those voices , whence high men rose higher ; And nations crown'd the singer who crown . 'd them . His days are over . Better men than his Live among us : and muBt they live unsung Because deaf ears flap round them ? or because Gold lies along the sh . allowB of the world , And vile hands gather it ? My song shall rise , Altho' none heed or hear it : rise it shall , And swell along the wastes of Nineveh And Babylon , until it reach to thee , Layard ! who raisest cities from the dust , Who driest Lethe up amid her shades , And pourest a fresh stream on arid sands , And rescuest thrones and nations , fanes and gods , From conquering Time ; he sees thee and turns back . The weak and slow Power pushes past the wise , And lifts them up in triumph to her car : They , to keep firm the seat , sit with flat palms Upon the cushion , nor look once beyond To cheer thee on thy road . In vain are won The spoils ; another carries them away ; The stranger seeks them in another land , Torn piecemeal from thee . But no stealthy step Can intercept thy glory . Cyrus rais'd His head on ruins : he of Macedon Crumbled them , with their dreamer , into dust : God gave thee power above them , far above ; Power to raise up those whom they overthrew , Power to show mortals that the kings they serve Swallow each other like the shapeless forms , And unsubstantial , which pursue pursued In every drop of water , and devour Devour'd , perpetual round the crystal globe . * Walter Savage Landok .
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- - ^ SEXTTJS V . AND AZAEL . On Monday night a crowded and exuberant audience at the Olympic declared that Albert Smith's dream of establishing in England a drama imitated from that which distinguished Le Theatre Historiquc , under the management of Dumas the Incomparable , is no longer a dream , but a fact . The lovers of " situation" ought to be in ecstacies . High Art is battered from her pedestal . Les Dieux s ' en vontl The Gods are leaving us ! The Drama , as an Art ,
has been so mismanaged by managers , and so maltreated by authors and actors , that what wonder if an age of scepticism succeed an age of irreverent twaddle , what wonder if faith be succeeded by contempt , what wonder if the love of the noble , the beautiful , the impassioned , the delicate , be borne down and trampled upon by the insurgent senses , and shows , noise , glitter , clung , tumult , and " situation " raise up their Barricade , from behind which they win a Revolution ?
" Situation "— " stage effect "— " incident "—these are the watchwords of the Material School . They mean very good things . I am the last man in the world to undervalue them . For many years I have been preaching the absolute necessity of such things in dramas intended for representation ; and it in because poetic dramatists have been bunglers , or dindained these necessary aid » , that dramas witli " hi ^ h Art" pretensions have been bo mercileHtuy dull . But let us understand each other . " Situation" is
only the embodiment of an idea . lhe " Hinge effect'' in only effective because it is the culmination and material presentment of some passion or some thought . Not for its own » ake , but lor the sake of what it expressed , in n situation interesting . Just as colours cnrelt'Hnly rubbed upon a palette , though plcatmip to the eye an colour , acquire artistic significance only in connection with Design ; and Desiijn itself borrow * ita ltmtic from the thought it embodies . Thus you see how a little philosop hic analysis will dispose of the ' Fast School " und their claim * for " situation . " The Drama , ns an Art , ia the material representation of an ideal concoption . It places before our eyeathe prognsHsnd culmination ofaomepa »» aon , th © story of some ideal life . But , inasmuch as it muBt re-
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 22, 1851, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22021851/page/17/
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