They have even come to curse _liberty_, so little confidence have they in the development of the human race, the result of its natural organization.

Liberty, according to them, is something which will bring humanity nearer and nearer to destruction.
It is true that they are optimists as regards the future.

For, although humanity, in itself incapable, for six thousand years has gone astray, a revelation has come, which has pointed out to men the way of safety, and, if the flock are docile and obedient to the shepherd's call, will lead them to the promised land, where well-being may be attained without effort, where order, security and prosperity are the easy reward of improvidence.
To this end humanity, as Rousseau said, has only to allow these reformers to change the physical and moral constitution of man.
Political economy has not taken upon itself the mission of finding out the probable condition of society had it pleased God to make men different from what they are.

It may be unfortunate that Providence, at the beginning, neglected to call to his counsels a few of our modern reformers.

And, as the celestial mechanism would have been entirely different had the Creator consulted _Alphonso the Wise_, society, also, had He not neglected the advice of Fourier, would have been very different from that in which we are compelled to live, and move, and breathe.