Star.
London, England, 1830-04-05 00:00:00

MR. OWEN'S EYPOSE.

A 9 SUBMITTED TO THE BRITISH GOVIERXXENT—(Continued )
It thus appears that new preliminary arrangements are required
for the three classes, which would Iva:a:teach as large a portion
of these conditions as their present and other existing cir-
cumstances, which cannot be changed in this generation, will ad-
mit. Respecting these arrangements, a diversity of opinion,
arising from the variety of feelings and habits which the exist-
ing system has produced, may be anticipated but a steady ad.
!service to the principles of human nature, and attention to the
conditions requisite for man's happiness, will speedily remove these
difficulties.

It is not only true, as bas been before observed, that there is in
the British dominions a vast superfluity of means, to afford to the
whole population, when those means shall be wisely directed, a full
supply of the best of every thing for human nature; but it, is also
n fact, that the existing generation has not been trained in a
manner tolallow it to partake fully of these enjoyments.
To fit mankind for a better state of existence, they must be edu.
cated, from infancy, in the knowledge, dispositions, and habits
which; would be given to them by the new moral system. For the
present generation, therefore !preliminary or compromising arrange.
ments will be the best suited.
These arrangements, however, may be so formed as to secure for
the adults, without too great a change of their present habits, the
means of continued improvement end great enjoyment, together
with the best education for the children.
Until the overwhelming effects of an education founded on a
knowledge of the laws of human nature shall be witnessed, the
public will be incompetent to judge of the practicability of
permanent arrangements to secure to all individuals dick:el:lll3
every thing for their nature ; for it is, at present, impossible that
the public mind should form a just estimate of man's latent powers,
which, under the existing immoral system of falsehood and insin-
cerity, cannot be called forth ; but which, under the proposed
change, will, in every instance, be made available.
It is from this source, chiefly, that abundant means will be ob.
mined, to create a superior order of beings, and a superior state of
human existence. For it is the rational faculties of the human
race, which, in their infancy, have hitherto been unavoidably de-
stroyed by the immoral system of the past aces.
These faculties could not exist, while mdividuals were taught,
falsely to imagine, that each had the power, within himself, to be..
lieve and disbelieve; to love and hate at his will; that there was
individual merit or demerit for entertaining particular opinions, or
for loving or hating in opposition to nature; that individuals were,
thezefore, responsible for their thoughts and feelings, and deserved
present and future rewards and punishments for them; and while
they were obliged to believe all the inconsistent jargon which was
necessary to make a system, founded on such inconsistent notions,
in any degree defensible, admissible, or practicable.
With such a foundation for the formation of the human character
Lud hitherto there has been no other), it is impossible that a human
ing can have yet existed wbo has not been compelled, from in.
fancy, to become irrational, and to continue so to the hour of his
death, by the circumstances which, through the effects of this illCOThe
sistent system, hale been formed around him, throughout all ages,
in every rank, and in every country. From the writings of out an.
mown, therefore, no knowledge can be derived, except that of simple
facts.
The past history of our race, as known to us, is no more than a
developement of a period of human existence when, under the influ-
ence of an immoral system, generating universal disunion of mind
and feeling, contest, counteraction, wan and massacres, human be-
ings were rendered irrational and unsocial. Under the new weal
system none of these evils could have place; but the put will be
An everlasting memento of human sufferings, which, by a compari-
son with the then existing condition of man, will always add to the
enjoyment of the new state of existence, in which these sufferings
will be wholly unknown, except as a matter of history.
The new preliminary arrangements, Intended for the existing
division of Alsace in society, consist of a new combination of cir-
cumstances, calculated gradually to withdraw the individuals cam.
posing these classes f. the Irrational and unsocial state in yid&
they now are, so as to render them, with the least loss of dine, cam.
parativel superior beings, and to tit them, as much as their present
habits will admit, for the enjoyment of the yet unknown pleasures
of a rational existence.

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS.
Relative to the proposed Preliminary Arraniemnts, ually to
relieve the British Population from the Evils (mora4 political,
aced commercial) under which they are now suffering.
It having been proved that man is ignorant or intelligent, vicious
or virtuous-..0r, in other words, irrstional or rational—
es the ebasacterof the education and other circumstance harwrill
he is surrounded from birth, it is apparent that the means of ras-
h doing him virtuous and happy is to withdraw the unfavourable or
isusenal circumstances its which he has hitherto bean placed, and
to create another arrangement, in which the cirararstances shall all
be of a truly moral character.
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requisite for Its happiness, which hen already been 'toted, must be
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