The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-01 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

THE BOOK OF THE NEW MORAL WORLD.
London, Effingham Wilson, 1837.
That most amiab?.e of moral and political enthu-
siasts, Robert Owee, has just published a volume
under the above title. It proposes to demon-
strate a rational system of society, founded on
facts developing the constitution and laws of
human nature. We shall not enter into an analysis
of the book, opposed as we have always been to the
peculiar views of the author; but we shall quote, fur the
information of such of our readers as may never see
the book itself, the facts upon which the whole system
is based :

" 1. Man is a compound being, whose character is formed
of his constitution or organization at birth, and of the effects
of external circumstances acting upon that organization, which
effects continue to operate upon, and to influence him from
from birth to death.
2. Man is com Felled by-his original constitution to re-
ceive his feelings and his convictions independently of his will.
" 3. Hisfielings or his convictions, or both of them united,
create the motive to action called the will, which stimulates
him to act, and decides his actions.
" 4. The organization of no two human beings is ever pre-,
eisely similar at birth ; nor can art subsequently form any two
intiividuals, from infancy to maturity, to be the same.
" 5. Nevertheless, the constitution of every infant, except in
else of organic disease, is capable of being formed or matured,
either into a Cery liffrrior, or a very superior being, according
to the Trilities of the external circumstances allowed to info-
eace that constitution from birth.
I. Human nature in the aggregate is a compound, eon.
sisting of animal propensities, intellectual faculties, and moral
qualities.

" C. These propensities, faculties, and quali:ica are united
in eifferent proportions in each individual.
4. :3. The different proportions of the same general propen-
sities, faculties, and quaiitics, constitute the sole difference by
which one individual is distinguished from another.
" 4. This difference in each is made by a power unknown
to the individual, without his knowledge or consent
" 5. Each individual comes into existence vi ithin certain
external circumstances, which, acting upon his peculiar orga-
zation during the early period of his life, impress their general
character upon him ; and thus the local and national character
is formed unknown to the individual.
" 6. The influence of external circumstances is modified,
a particular manner, by the particular organization of each
dividual ; and the distinguishing character of each individual is
thus formed, continued, and maiiitained through life.
" 7. No infant has the power of deciding at what period of
time, or in what part of the world. he shall come into exist-
ence, of what parents he shall be born, what particular nii-
gion he shall be trained to believe, or by what other external
circumstances he shall be surrounded from birth to death.
" 8. Each individual is so organized, that, when young, lie
may be made to receive either true ideas, derived froin a know-
ledge of facts, or false notion*, derived from the imagination,
and in opposition to facts.
" 9. Each individual is so organized, that he must necessa-
rily become irrational, when he is made, from infancy, to rc-
ecive, as truths, false notions ; and car, only become rational.
when he shall he made, from infancy, to receive true ideas,
without any admixture of error.
" 10. Each individual is so organized, that, when yout:‘7,
he may be trained to acquire injurious habits only, or beneficial
habits only ; or a mixture of both.
" 11. Each individual is so organized, that he must believe
according to the strongest conviction that is made upon his
mind; which conviction cannot be given to him by his will, nor
be withheld by it.
" 12. Each individual is so organized, that he must like
that which is pleasant to him, or which, in other words, pro-
duces agreeable sensations in him ; and dislike that which is
unpleasant to him, or which, in other words, produces in him
disagreeable sensations ; and he cannot know, previous to ex-
perience, what particular sensations new objects will produce
on any of his senses.
" 13. Each individual is so organized, that his feelings and
his convictions are formed for Aim by the impressions which
circumstances produce upon his individual organization.
" 14. Each individual is so organized, that his will is formed
for him by his feelings or convictions, or both ; and thus his
whole character, physical, mental, and moral, is formed inde-
pendently of hinisetf.
" 15. Each individual is so organized, that impressions,
which at their commencement, and for a limited time, produce
agreeable sensations, will, if continued, without intermission,
beyond a certain period, become indifferent, disagreeable, and
ultimately painful.
" 16. Each individual is so organized, that when, beyond a
certain degree of rapidity, impressions succeed each other,
they dissipate, weaken, and otherwise injure his physical,
mental, or moral powers, and diminish his enjoyment.
" 17. Each individual is so organized, that his highest
health, his greatest progressive improvement, and his perma-
nent happiness, depend upon the due cultivation of all his
physicaVintellectual, and moral faculties, or elements of his
nature; upon their being called into action at a proper period
of life ; and being afterwards temperately exercised, according
to his strength and capacity.
" 18. Each individual is so organized, that he is made to
receive what is commonly called a bad character, when he has
been created with what is now termed an unfavourable propor-
tion of the elements of his nature, and has been placed from
birth amidst the most unfavourable circumstances.
" 19. Each individual is so organized, that he is made to
receive a medium character, when be has been created with
what is now termed a favourable proportion of the elements of
his nature, and has been placed from birth amidst unfavourable
circumstances :
" Or, when he has been created with what is now called an
unfavourable proportion of these elements, and when the ex-
ternal circumstances ha which he is placed are of a character
to impress him with favourable sensations only
" Or, when he has been created with what is now called a
favourable proportion of some of these elements, and an unfa-
vourable proportion of others ; and has been placed, through
life, in varied external circumstances, producing some good
and some evil sensations. This compound has hitherto been
the general lot of mankind.
"20. Each individual is so organized, that he is made to
receive a superior character, when his original constitution
contains the best proportion of the elements of human nature,
and when the circumstances which surround him from birth,
and through life, are of a character to produce superior sensa-
tions only ; or, in other words, when the laws, institutions, and
customs, under which he lives, are all in unison with the laws
of his nature.
" These are fundamental laws of nature, not of man's inven-
tion ; they exist without his knowledge or consent ; they change
not by any effort he can make ; and, as they proceed solely
from a cause unknown and mysterious to him, they are divine
laws, in the only correct sense in which that term can be ap-
plied. These laws, considered separately and unitedly; and
viewed in all their bearings and consequences, form a perfect
foundation for a true Moral Science--for that science, the
knowledge of which is necessary to secure the happiness of
mankind."

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