It must be borne in mind, in order to understand this _caveat_, that the courtship between the Massachusetts Socialists and the Brisbane propagandists, though very warm, had not yet proceeded to coalescence. Brook Farm was not yet a "Phalanx," The _Harbinger_ was yet _in futuro_. And Fourier's latitudinarian speculations about marriage and sexual matters, made a difficulty for men of Puritan blood, that was not yet disposed of. In fact this difficulty always made a jar in the family of American Fourierists, and probably helped on their disasters and hastened their dissolution. The seventh resolution proposes that measures be taken for forming a National Confederation of Associations. The eighth resolution expresses a wish for concert of action with the Associationists of Europe, and says: "For this end we hereby appoint Albert Brisbane, representative from this body, to confer with them as to the best modes of mutual cooperation. And we assure our brethren in Europe that the disinterestedness, ability and perseverance with which our representative has devoted himself to the promulgation of the doctrine of Association in the United States, entitle him to their most cordial confidence. Through him we extend to them, with joy and trust, the right hand of fellowship; and may heaven soon bless all nations with a compact of perpetual peace." The ninth and last resolution appoints the following gentlemen as an executive committee to edit the _Phalanx_, and to do many other things for carrying into effect the objects of the Convention: Horace Greeley, Parke Godwin, James P. Decker, Frederick Grain, Albert Brisbane, Wm. H Channing, Edward Giles, Chas. J. Hempel, Osborne Macdaniel, Rufus Dawes, D.S. Oliphant, Pierre Maroncelli, of the City of New York. Solyman Brown, Leraysville Phalanx, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. George Ripley, Brook Farm Association, West Roxbury, Massachusetts. Alonzo M. Watson, Jefferson County Industrial Association, New York. E.P. Grant, Ohio Phalanx, Belmont County, Ohio. John White, Cincinnati Phalanx, Cincinnati, Ohio. Nathan Starks, North American Phalanx, Monmouth County, New Jersey. On the second evening of the Convention, Parke Godwin, on behalf of the business committee, reported a long address to the people of the United States. It is a powerful presentation of all the common-places of Fourierism: the defects of present society; organization of the townships into joint-stock companies; central unitary mansions and workshops; division of labor according to the law of groups and series; distribution of profit in the proportion of five-twelfths to labor, four-twelfths to capital, and three-twelfths to talent, &c. We quote the eloquent and pious conclusion, as a specimen of the whole: