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    ation of the begt mode to Produce and Distribute WeaUky-to * form the character > and to govern men in the aggregate * 96 a $ 4 ty insure their happiness . The Religion and Morals of the $ few World will there be explained , and their superiority shown oV ^ V " the mysteries and inconsistencies of the religions and mbraj * of tHe Old World . The principles on which to found a rational

    government for mankind will next follow , with its law ^ £ & $ reasons for each law , and the consequences of such a government to the population of the world . To these will succeed an explanation of the practical arrangements by which all the condition * requisite to happiness may be obtained for , and permanently ensured to , the human race ; together with the mode of effecting the change from the Old to the New World . ' We may weft pauSft here to ejaculate would it were come !'

    Considering the many startling features in Mr Owen ' s view of Society , arid the corresponding prejudices and apprehensions this soi-disant ' old friend' with so very new a face excite $ ( ia the general world , especially when Mr Owen does not hesitate to argue that the said ' old friend has actually beeti nothing better than the * Old Enemy ' of the human race ; it can be no matter of wonder that this book should have received little

    notice from the press ; and that little , a shout of derision or a flourish of bludgeons . To all this the indefatigable philanthropist , no doubt , exclaims with Lear , — ' Pour on ! I will endure / It is highly gratifying to perceive the evident advance of liberality of mind and feeling in the community , iti the fact of certain exceptions even in the newspaper press , —a newspaper being more than all other organs expressly addressed to the mixed mass of mankind . We will extract a few

    remarks from a criticism that appeared in the New Weekly Messenger , in illustration of one of these exceptions : —* " To call Robert Owen ' a visionary , ' ' an enthusiast , ' is only to take a part in the stupid chorus of the think-nothing- and do-nothing grubs of the Metropolitan and Provincial Press ; and therefore , so we wnT'iio £ call him , although we may not have the honour of being- ' Owienitii / We , ifi comrnbn with all unprejudiced men , most sincerely respect tlfe

    benevolent liberality and arduous perseverance , the capacity , thfc intlte ^ pidity , with which Mr Owen has , through evil report and good , putsued < the even tenor of his way ' in the devoting of his life and faugto fortune towards forwarding the progression of what he , at least , beHevf * to t > e the possible Perfectability of the Terrestrial Condition Qjf lfep Human Race . As man , he has diligently laboured for us as men ; af } 4 whether we , in our individual judgments , consider him to be or r ^ ght or wrong , in thought or in action , as mm we ought honourably to jjay tribute to the wisdom and nobleness of his intentions , whatever we may ' do to what we may consider to be their conventional tendency . ** ' * - ¦ . ¦ As Mr Owen must be very anxious to have hi * * Sy « &lHt

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    The Book &f the New Moral Worlds 74 # r

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 743, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/27/