Manufac tures. Com merce. / 1. Clothing Materials. 3. Metals & Minerals. 5. Machinery. Appraisers' Board. Merchants' Stores. Bankers' House of Exchange. SECOND ORDER, PRESERVING. Court for the correction of errors. Natural History. THIRD ORDER, REFINING. All the outward appearances and habits of things animate, and the changes of appearance of inanimate objects. Physiol- The organism of all organised ogy. Moral Things & Beings. The laws of mind. Logic. The evidences of the existence of an almighty, allwise, and perfect The next object is to give the spirit and the moving power, and render it practical. Our object is to convert to the arts and sciences of peace, that system and principle of co-operation now best known in war; for that is, as experience proves, the only practical system of harmonious co-operation. We have marked out the ground on which every class of mind must take its place. We have a place for every art and science, and now the tactics to be observed in each, and how to gain the land on which to operate, is all we have to show. First, of the art and science of co-operation. This is to bring the whole to bear for our mutual advantage. To learn the art of government correctly, men should begin to practice at the rudiments, as a soldier first learns the manual, and if prompt and energetic becomes a petty officer and drills others. He then arises by degrees through every grade. It is thus that every art and science must, according to the nature of the human mind, be learnt. Some, of great quickness of perception and tact, may learn. more readily than others it is true, but the system we have given is the only safe one. "An officer of a ship must creep in at the hauze hole and not through the cabin windows" according to a common maxim of sea-faring men, or they become ridiculous in action, as our politicians generally are. To hope to make a man a surgeon or physician, a moral philosopher or professor of belles-lettres, or divine, by an election of a majority, is not more absurd than to hope by the same means to make a statesman. In what condition would the arts and sciences be, if every year or two a new election and a general change should be effected, by electing hatters to be shoe makers; shoe makers, tailors; tailors, lawyers; lawyers, sailors; sailors, divines; divines, soldiers; soldiers, merchants, and thus on? P. We should retrograde to barbarism! A. Yes. We could depend on nothing being done correctly.. P. But as your system has not been in operation, how can it commence ? Where will you find practically instructed officers ? A. The greatest difficulty lies indeed in the first steps. But by dividing and subdividing, and simplifying all their duties, the risk of failure is so lessened that, as armies have been heretofore well officered and prepared for active service by a previous exercise, by like means and by degrees, may we also accomplish our object. I refer you to the diagrams, by which the bearings and dependencies of all the parts, may be at a glance perceived. On this, the lines of accountability are shown converging to a point from each inferior to a superior officer, and the superior being in like manner accountable with others to a higher. We thus go on, until one is enabled to perceive at a glance where anything is wrong in government, and apply the remedy, by holding the officer having charge of the department accountable at once. P. To whom should the officers be accountable, should the superior not perceive? A. To the people who may suffer. P. Who will try the question? A. The Court for the Correction of Errors. |