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emigrating westwards. The community, including
several thousan d persons, improved in mind, manners,
and fortunes; but there was still the something want-
ing which was essential to permanence. Duke Ber-
' nerd of Saxe Weimar stayed there for a week or
two, and, amidst all his respect and admiration for
Mr. Owen, saw that it would not do ; and in that
case the experiment was not a long one. The ac-
count given by the Duke of Mr. Owen's expecta-
tions is so precisely true, at all periods of his life,
that it may stand as a general description of the
philanthropist's state of mind for seventy years* "He
looks to nothing less than to renovate the world, to
extirpate all evil, to banish all punishments, to
create like views and like wants, and to guard
against all conflicts and hostilities." And so he
went on to the end. At every moment, his." plans"
were going to be tried in some country or other,
which would bring over all other countries. Every-
body who treated him with respect and interest was
his disciple ; and those who openly opposed or
quizzed him were regarded with a good-natured
smile, and spoken of as people who had very good
eyes, but who had accidentally got into a wood,
where they could not see their way for the trce3.
He was the same placid happy being into his old
age, believing and expecting whatever he wished ;
always gentlemanly and courteous in his manners;
always on the mist endearing terms with his chil-
dren, who loved to make him, as they said, "the
very happiest old man in the world.;' always a
gent]• bore in regard to bis dogmas and his expecta-
tions; always palpably right in his descriptions of
human misery ; always thinking lie had proved a
thing when lie had asserted it, in the force of his own
conviction; and always really meaning something
more rational than he had actually expressed. It
was said by way of mockery that " he might live in
parallelograms, but he argued in circles ;" but this
is rather too favourable a description of one who did
not argue at all, nor know what argument meant.
His mind never fairly met any other—though at
the close of his life he had a strange idea that it did,
.by means of spirit-tapping. lie published sundry
conversations held in that way with Benjamin
Franklin and other people ; and in the very same
breath in which he insisted on the reality of there
conversations, he insisted that the new found power
was " all electricity."
It must be needless to add that whatever recep-
tion his doctrines and plans may deserve or meet
with, his life and conduct were virtuous and be-
nign. No censure attaches to him in his domestic
relations, in his personal habits, or in his ordinary
social dealings. He was a beloved and faithful
husband and father, pure and simple in his way of
life, and upright in his transactions. Taere was
therefore no solid ground for the horror expressed
by the Quarterly Review, in the name of its con-
stituents, when they heard of Robert Owen from a
new place. When they were expecting, as they
declared, to hear of his bein.. in Bedlam, they heard
, of his being at court, introduced to the young
Queen by her Prime Minister, Lord Melbain no
Many have been introduced there who were quite
as wide of the mark in speculation, and quite as
complacent in their mistakes ; while there can
hardly have been many so self governed, so true to
their convictions, so thoroughly superior to the
I world, so irapartial and disinterested, and so de-
voted to the welfare of the people, individually and
collectively. As long as the name of Rob ert Owen
continues to be heard of there will be some to laugh
at it, but there will be more to love and cherish it.
The probability seems to be that time will make his
prodigious errors more palpable andunquestionable,
but that it will at least in equal proportion exalt
his name and fame, on account of some great in-
tuitive truths which are at present about equally
involved with his wildest mistakes and his noblest
virtues.—Daily News.