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of his scheme of reform is, “ Immovable property belongs 
to all.” 
In 1848 Colins was accused of having participated in the 
revolution of June, but was pardoned. He died at Paris on 
the 12th of November, 1859, after having published a great 
number of works and leaving numerous manuscripts afterwards 
brought out by his disciples.* 
Colins and his disciples attach great importance to their 
philosophical views, on which they assert their whole system, 
which they call “ Rational Socialism,” is founded ; but here 
the want of special study is clearly felt. They admit the im 
mortality of our spiritual being, which they call, by a strange 
abuse of language, “Sensibility,” while they deny the existence 
of a Deity. They are eager to prove that our notions of 
morality, justice, and equality of rights are based solely on the 
permanence of the human personality, but they fail to perceive 
that the pursuit of a rational order implies an ideal and an 
origin outside of ourselves. They are, then, at once Spiritualists 
and Atheists. 
All men, they say, are equal, as being all formed by the 
union of a “ sensibility ” to an organism. All men are brothers, 
as having all the same origin. Man alone, among all animate 
beings, is responsible for his actions, for he alone is a conscious 
* The following are his principal works :— 
Le Pacte Sociale, 2 vols., 8vo, 1835. 
L'Économie politique source des r'evolutions et des utopies pretendtus 
Sociales, 3 vols., i2mo, 1856-57. 
Qu’est-ce que la science Sociale ? 3 vols., 8vo, 1851-54. 
La Société nouvelle, sa nécessité, 2 vols., 8vo, 1857. 
La Souveraineté, 2 vols., 8vo, 1857-58. 
La Science Sociale, 5 vols., 8vo, 1857. 
La Justice dans la Science, hors V Église et hors la Révolution, 3 vols., 
8vo, 1861. 
Colins also wrote in 1848 in certain journals : La Révolution démo 
cratique et Sociale, the Tribunal des Peuples, and the Presse. 
He left numerous manuscripts, the publication of which has been com 
menced by his disciples. In this way the Philosophie de Pavenir, the organ 
of the Rational Socialists, has published, among other works, the fourth 
volume of Colins’ L'Économie politique ; two volumes of his 
the sixth and the eleventh ; different minor works, such as the Choléra 
moral. Qui donc est peuple I Examen critique de la décadence de V Angle 
terre, by Ledru-Rollin, L'impôt pratique confirmant la théorie, etc., etc. 
The editors of the Philosophie de Pavenir announce that they will publish 
in succession all the manuscripts left by the master.