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brought into public examination , he must be deli g hted a £ . these Mtewl-itoc ^ ftifro ^ iaLtibh ^ ^ o £ however small a portion , pf $ ip iiqwjsxM ( i&t tiffed . The same paper thus concludes : —• - ¦ ^ f »* * , -il ' .: » % i - ^ , - .. . * r ¦ - . ' i ¦ : ¦ - •¦ ¦¦ .. o ' f ^ p d « $ U this is to he * brought about' in a few years ! TVell ; it is , perhaps , a law in nature that a great Propounder should be sarigtone fiW
to the practicability of the speedy realization of his Pjopoaais . > rHe & £ 61 d * tbt ' persever ' else . v t ¦ > # * W % have carefully and studiously perused and meditated upon Mr Oween 8 book ; and many are the passages which we had marked ' for es 4 ract afid argument : our space , however , fails us ; and w ^ e must refer our readers to the work itself for the only satisfactory notion that cata be a ^ oinaVle of the much-talked-of system of Mr Owen . That work , even
O ^ ur . rwph and idle readers may both fearlessly undertake the task / -of perusing *; for Mr Owen , in his dedication aforesaid , declares that , under # w system , < neither will it be necessary to disturb private property , as now existing ; or to require any labour from those who have , no 4 b > een trfcmba " to employment / Not the least of the recommendations , ^ . as tWafe ^ r ^ aders ^ will but too readily confess , of a system which , according $ t ^ WH % * e * its to its author , < will be found , on full examination by
compttentimncC * , to be the least visionary and the most easy of practice of alldk £ i « 53 t ^ m 8 which have been proposed , in ancient or modern timies / to ht > prpiw&rihe character and to ensure the happiness of the hutujpqi yWWVTi (} ii ? - » ' . . - ¦ ¦ ' - loWe / cattnOfe allow Mr Owen credit for all the " originality % 6
wtitih ^ he rarys clairn ; for , although legislatures and the common minddo tifot found their laws and opinions upon his theory of t > wwm > heituro , yet in all ag-es there have been philosophers who have maintained portions of it . We take , as an example of undue arrogation of originality , the following passage : — " It is
for acts of the will that men are punished or rewarded by men , bgc ^ upe ^ y hjive hitherto imagined that the will was formed by tbf vp ^ tary impulse of the individual ; axid they never suspected itj ^ t it wfis as much created for , and independent of him as any mt ^ q fi ^ i physical frame or mental faculties . "—p . 10 . Writers Wilh ^ tit number , long before Mr Owen , have distinctly acknowwiih ^ tit number , long before Mr Owen , have distinctly acknowihsit and the
kfjge ^ organisation circumstances formed character , J ^ p Xh ^^ popularizes any truth accomplishes ' a useful work as % ^ m he who discovers it ; and Mr Owens exertions have sited tU ^ liglit of intelligence and happiness upon hundreds &nA ^ OOSiudkI ^ to a degree which he will probably never be able to trace . He has done more to instruct the working classe « > qnd done it well , by making them think on important subjects for the first time—than any other individual . In his opening address to the King of Great Britain , there is
an air of calm grandeur and philanthropy that sink ' s into the heart : — : " Sihe , —CircumdtAnfcfc g not tinder jour control have p laced you at the liead of the most powerful association of nieh ftii frboifl or for evil , that
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744 The Book of the New Moral World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 744, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/28/
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