The increasing zeal¹ and numbers of the disciples² of Fourier, in America and in Europe, entitle them to an attention which their theory and practical projects will justify³ and reward. In London, a good weekly newspaper (lately changed into a monthly journal) called “The Phalanx,” devoted⁴ to the social doctrines⁵ of Charles Fourier and bearing for its motto, “Association and Colonization,” is edited by Hugh Doherty. Mr. Etzler’s inventions, as described in the Phalanx, promise to cultivate twenty thousand acres with the aid of four men only and cheap machinery⁷. Thus the laborers⁹ are threatened with starvation if they do not organize themselves into corporations, so that machinery may labor¹⁰ for instead of working against them. It appears that Mr. Young, an Englishman of large property, has purchased the Benedictine Abbey of Citeaux, in the Mont d’Or, in France, with its ample domains¹¹, for the purpose of establishing a colony there. We also learn that some members of the sect¹² have bought an estate at Santa Catharina, fifty miles from Rio Janeiro, in a good situation for an agricultural experiment, and one hundred laborers have sailed from Havre to that port, and nineteen hundred more are to follow. On the anniversary of the birthday of Fourier, which occurred in April, public festivals were kept by the Socialists¹³ in London, in Paris, and in New York. In the city of New York, the disciples of Fourier have bought a column in the Daily Tribune, Horace Greeley’s excellent newspaper, whose daily and weekly circulation exceeds twenty thousand copies, and through that organ are now

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