d be
irregular and a usurpation for the Supreme Father to undertake alone to
legislate on the subject. Bazard would not submit, and went out and shot
himself. Most of the politicians abandoned the association; and Pere
Enfantin, almost in despair, dispatched twelve apostles to
Constantinople to find in the Turkish harems the Supreme Mother. After a
year they returned and reported that they were unable to find her; and
the society, condemned by the French courts as immoral, broke up, and
broke up because no woman could be found to be its mother. And so they
ended, having risen, flourished, and decayed in less than a
single decade.

The points in the Saint-Simonian movement that arrested my attention and
commanded my belief were what it will seem strange to my readers could
ever have been doubted,--its assertion of a religious future for the
human race, and that religion, in the future as well as in the past,
must have an organization, and a hierarchical organization. Its
classification of men according to the predominant psychological faculty
in each, into artists, savans, and industrials, struck me as very well;
and the maxims "To each according to his capacity," and "To each
capacity according to its works," as evidently just, and desirable if
practicable. The doctrine of the Divinity in Humanity, of progress, of
no essential antagonism between the spiritual and the material, and of
the duty of shaping all institutions for the speediest and continuous
moral, intellectual, and physical amelioration of the poorer and more
numerous classes, I already held. I was rather pleased than otherwise
with the doctrine with regard to property, and thought it a decided
improvement on that of a community of goods. The doctrine with regard to
the relation of the sexes I rather acquiesced in than approved. I was
disposed to maintain, as the Indian said, that "woman is the weaker
canoe," and to assert my marital prerogatives; but the equality of the
sexes was asserted by nearly all my friends, and I remained generally
silent on the subject, till some of the admirers of Harriet Martineau
and Margaret Fuller began to scorn equality and to claim for woman
superiority. Then I became roused, and ventured to assert my
masculine dignity.

It is remarkable that most reformers find fault with the Christian law
of marriage, and propose to alter the relations which God has
established both in nature and the gospel between the sexes; and this is