. The New England magazine . ecy of apurer, freer and more right-eous social order. But CharlesFourier drew his inspirationfrom the philosophical ratherthan the theological source, and therefore,to such men as Mr. Ballou, he did notseem to furnish the inexhaustible spiri-tual requirements necessary for so radicala social change as he advocated. Thelabors of the famous Frenchman, there- fore, resulted rather in opening the doorsof general social reformation to other ori-ginal thinkers, than in winning proselytesto his own particular scheme. The samewas largely true also of the efforts ofRobert
. The New England magazine . ecy of apurer, freer and more right-eous social order. But CharlesFourier drew his inspirationfrom the philosophical ratherthan the theological source, and therefore,to such men as Mr. Ballou, he did notseem to furnish the inexhaustible spiri-tual requirements necessary for so radicala social change as he advocated. Thelabors of the famous Frenchman, there- fore, resulted rather in opening the doorsof general social reformation to other ori-ginal thinkers, than in winning proselytesto his own particular scheme. The samewas largely true also of the efforts ofRobert Owen, who, as an enterprising andphilanthropic manufacturer, distinguishedhimself at New Lanark, in Scotland, as aradical reformer in the realm of industryand social science. Then there werealso the Shakers and the Perfectionists,under John H. Noyes; and, as opposedto all systems of practical socialism, therewas the absolute individualism of and Andrews, whose ideas maybe briefly inferred from the following ex-. A Corner of Mr. Ballous Study. tract from Mr. Andrews * Science ofSociety. Man, standing then, at the head of the createduniverse is consequently the most complex crea-ture in existence — every individual man or womanbeing a little world in himself or herself, an image 202 HOPE DALE AND ITS FOUNDER. or reflection of God, an epitome of the the individualities of such a being areutterly immeasurable, and every attempt to adjustthe capacities, the adaptations, the wants, or theresponsibilities of one human being by the capa-cities, the adaptations, the wants or the responsi-
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