text:  Ducpetiaux a Belgian who comes vouched to us for a safe and respected member of society by the number of titles official and honorary appended to his name in a voluminous and chiefly statistical work _Sur la Condition des Jeunes Ouvriers_ wherein his views are in the main temperate and judicious declares himself a partisan of some system similar to what Fourier points out in his famous formula--_associer les hommes en capital travail et talent_