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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 16: the Tribune and Fourierism. (search)
nterrupted and profitable labor, and to every child nourishment and culture. These things, it is undeniable, the present Social System does not secure; and hence the necessity of a new and better organization. So no more of your Passional Attraction. H. J. Raymond. April 16th. I tell you the scheme of Fourier is essentially and fundamentally irreligious! by which I mean that it does not follow my Catechism, and apparently ignores the Thirty-Nine Articles. Shocking. Horace Greeley, April 28th. Humph! H. J. Raymond. May 20th. The Tribune is doing a great deal of harm. The editor does not know it—but it is. Thus ended Fourierism. Thenceforth, the Tribune alluded to the subject occasionally, but only in reply to those who sought to make political or personal capital by reviving it. By its discussion of the subject it rendered a great service to the country: first, by affording one more proof that, for the ills that flesh is heir to, there is, there can be, no panacea; sec
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 26: three months in Europe. (search)
, or to the average agony of five years of life on shore. It was a consolation to him, however, even when most sick and impatient, to think that the gales which were so adverse to the pleasure-seekers of the Baltic, were wafting the emigrant ships, which it hourly passed, all the more swiftly to the land of opportunity and hope. His were light afflictions compared with those of the multitudes crowded into their stifling steerages. At seven o'clock on the evening of Thursday, the twenty-eighth of April, under sullen skies and a dripping rain, the passengers of the Baltic were taken ashore at Liverpool in a steam-tug, which in New York, thought Mr. Greeley, would be deemed unworthy to convey market-garbage. With regard to the weather, he tells us, in his first letter from England, that he had become reconciled to sullen skies and dripping rains: he wanted to see the thing out, and would have taken amiss any deceitful smiles of fortune, now that he had learned to dispense with her f