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 demonstration that they ought to work at the conversion of Catholics and of Protestants. It is by means of demonstration and persuasion that they shall succeed in inducing these misguided Christians to renounce the heresies with which the papal and Lutheran religion are infected, and frankly to adopt the New Christianity.

New Christianity, as well as primitive Christianity, will be supported, promoted, protected, by the power of morality, and by the omnipotence of public opinion; and if, unfortunately, its admission should occasion acts of violence or unjust condemnations, it will be the new Christians who shall experience these acts of violence, these unjust condemnations. But, in no case will they ever employ physical force against their adversaries; in no case will they ever act the part of judges or executioners.

After having found the means of regenerating Christianity, in making it undergo a metamorphosis to its original principle, my first care has been, and ought to be, to take every necessary precaution that the propagation of the new doctrine do not carry the poor class to acts of violence against the rich and against government.

I was obliged to address myself first to the rich and the powerful, to dispose them favourably towards the new doctrine, in convincing them that it was not contrary to their interests; since it is evidently impossible to ameliorate the moral and physical condition of the poor by other means than those which tend to give an increase of enjoyments to the rich.

I was obliged to persuade artists, learned men, and chiefs of industry, that their interests were essentially the same as those of the mass of the people; that they belonged to the class of labourers, at the same time that they were their natural chiefs; that the approbation of the mass of the people, for the services which they rendered them, was the only recompense worthy of their glorious exertions. I was obliged to insist much upon this point, since it is of the greatest import-