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pies , and interests , for the future , the natural allies of France : this , a fewweeks before the battle of Waterloo , was any thing but popular . The year 1817 produced " L'Industrie , " also with M . Th ' ierry and another fellowlabourer ; in this work he considers the parliamentary and representative
system as only a passage or transition between the feudal state of society and a new order of things which will be introduced by industry . * L ' Organizateur , " in 1819 , presents an historical picture from the eleventh century , with systematic inductions for the future ; and a pamphlet on elections appeared in 1820 . " Le Syst&me industriel" followed ; in this there are some fine
developments of his theories and beautiful passages on individuality and liberty , with some most luminous applications of history to the future . He warned Charles X ., in 1822 , in " Les Bourbons et les Stuarts , " not to trust to courtiers and nobles , but to unite himself intimately with the now privileged classes , or his fall would be inevitable . Le Catechisme des industriels " appeared in 1823-4 . Still Saint Simon was not heard ; constitutional struggles drowned his voice ; disdain , mockery , forgetfulness , and poverty , were the price of his labours . He ardently loved glory and mankind ; man was
deaf to his appeal , glory delayed its approach , and was destined only to grace his tomb . How frightful the smile which agitates the lip of a man of genius , brooding over the ingratitude of his age ! The struggle must have been terrible in the breast of Saint Simon , for he sunk under it , and rejecting life with invincible disgust , resolved to destroy himself . The blow was struck , but was not mortal . Since death escaped him Saint Simon understood that he had yet something to do ; he wished to live : raised from the abyss , a
religious sentiment inspired him , which vivified , sanctified , and renewed his existence ; he became the prophet of the law of love . " Le Nouveau Christianisme" appeared . He . died in 1825 . After entering so profoundl y into the conception of God and religion , he obtained an unalterable tranquillity of mind ; and he felt secure of his future glory , of the prevalence of his ideas , and of the welfare of society . An hour before his death , having at his bedside his single , faithful disciple , and two or three new friends , for his old ones had forsaken him , mastering his sufferings , he exhorted them , " Be
of good courage , the pear is ripe , you will gather it ; the sequel of our labours , the religious part , will for some time be misunderstood ; Catholicism is opposed to science , and a similar opinion will be entertained with regard to all religious professions ; but go forward constantly , and remember , that energy is essential to accomplish great designs . " The " Nouveau Christianisme , '' in the form of a dialogue between the " Conservateur" preserver , or adherent of ancient forms , and the •* Novateur , " the advocate of the improved system , begins with the declaration of belief in God , and in the divine origin of Christianity ; insists on the
distinction to be made between the divine principle , which , as regards human conduct , is resolved into one , that men should act towards each other as brethren , " and the complicated systems , which are the innovations of priests , and which , although they may have had their use in the infancy of the church , require from time to time to be renovated . Society , therefore ,
should be reorganized on a principle which will be most conducive to the physical and moral welfare of the most numerous class—the poor ; " in this , and this alone , consists the divinity of the Christian religion . " The primitive church is held up to admiration , and is declared infallible for the age in which it existed . The great falling away is dated from the 15 th century , as the period when the desire of temporal power almost annihilated all that was spiritual ; from that time the clergy was no longer Christian ,
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French Seel of Saint Simonites . 85
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1831, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2594/page/13/
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