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AZAIS, PIERRE HYACINTHE (1766-1845)
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See also:AZAIS, See also:PIERRE HYACINTHE (1766-1845) , See also:French philosopher, was See also:born at Soreze and died at See also:Paris. He spent his See also:early years as a teacher and a See also:village organist. At the outbreak of the Revolution he viewed it with favour, but was soon disgusted at the violence of its methods. A See also:critical pamphlet See also:drew upon him the hatred of the revolutionists, and it was not until 18o6 that he was able to See also:settle in Paris. In 1809 he published his See also:great See also:work, See also:Des Compensations clans See also:les destinees humaines (5th ed. 1846), which pleased See also:Napoleon so much that he made its author See also:professor at St Cyr. In 1811 he becameinspector of the public library at See also:Avignon, and from 1812 to 1815 he held the same position at See also:Nancy. The Restoration See also:government at first suspected him as a Bonapartist, but at length granted him a See also:pension. From that See also:time he occupied himself in lecturing and the publication of philosophical See also:works. In the Compensations he sought to prove that, on the whole, happiness and misery are equally balanced, and therefore that men should accept the government which is given them rather than See also:risk the horrors of revolution. " Le principe de l'inegali.te naturelle et essentielle dans les destinees humaines conduit inevitablement au fanatisme revolutionnaire ou au fanatisme religieux." The principles of See also:compensation and See also:equilibrium are found also in the See also:physical universe, the product of See also:matter and force, whose cause is See also:God. Force, naturally expansive and operating on the homogeneous atoms which constitute elemental matter, is subject to the See also:law of equilibrium, or equivalence of See also:action and reaction. The development of phenomena under this law may be divided into three stages—the physical, the physiological, the intellectual and moral. The immaterial in See also:man is the expansive force inherent in him. Moral and See also:political phenomena are the result of the opposing forces of progress and preservation, and their perfection lies in the fulfilment of the law of equilibrium or universal See also:harmony. This may be achieved in seven thousand years, when man will vanish from the See also:world. In an additional five thousand, a similar equilibrium will obtain in the physical See also:sphere, which will then itself pass away. In addition to his philosophical work, Azals studied See also:music under his See also:father, Pierre Hyacinthe AzaIs (1i43-1796), professor of music at Soreze and See also:Toulouse, and composer of sacred music in the See also:style of See also:Gossec. He wrote for the Revue musicale a See also:series of articles entitled Acoustique fondamentale (1831), containing an ingenious, but now exploded, theory of the vibration of the See also:air. His other works are: Systeme universel (8 vols., 1812); Du Sort de l'homme (3 vols., 182o); Cours de philosophic (8 vols., 1824), reproduced as Explication universelle (3 vols., 1826-1828); Jeunesse, maturite, See also:religion, philosophic (1837); De la phrenologie, du magnetisme, et de la folie (1843). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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