edies. Some of the remedies are coming to
the front at present. All will in time be presented in the JOURNAL OF
MAN.
Land reform is but one of the great measures that progress demands.
The first and greatest is a PERFECT EDUCATION for all, moral and
industrial. The second is SPIRITUAL RELIGION. The third is JUSTICE TO
WOMAN. The fourth, which is JUSTICE IN LEGISLATION, includes land
reform, financial reform, and many other reforms. The fifth is
INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATION. The sixth is TEMPERANCE.
The first reform includes all the others. The second would ultimately
bring all things right, and so would the third in a longer lapse of
time.
ANTHROPOLOGY is the intellectual guidance into all reforms, and
therefore should precede all. Hence it is the leading theme of this
Journal.
THE SINALOA COLONY.
Mankind would be one family or group of families, if the principles of
Jesus could be imparted to the human race. But the robber races that
occupy this globe at present are intensely hostile in feeling to that
life of Christian love which is commanded in the books which they
honor with their lips.
The so-called civilized races of to-day are as intensely barbarian at
heart, notwithstanding the superficial varnish of literary
civilization, as the hordes of Attila and Genghis Khan. Witness the
attitude of Germany and France (the great exemplars of literary
civilization), each eagerly preparing for a deadly conflict.
Yet in all ages there have been those whom nature has qualified for a
better life, who wish to live in harmony, and turn with weariness and
disgust from the present forms of avaricious strife, rivalry, and
fraud. If the best of these could be gathered in one community, a
better state of society could be organized.
Horace Greeley sympathized with such movements, and about forty years
ago gave much space in the _Tribune_ to the illustration of this
subject. Although the co-operative principles of Fourier, then widely
discussed, have not resulted in any great success in community life in
the United States, it can also be said that experiments have not shown
the doctrines of Fourier to be impracticable. The best thinkers have
not lost their faith, and the example of M. Godin at Guise in France,
with a population of 1,800 in the Social Palace enjoying the very
Utopia of happy and prosperous co-operative life, is a splendid
demonstration of what is possible, and a standing rebuke to the
churches of ci
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