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London, England, 1830-01-27 00:00:00

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THE CONETITUTION—NOTI4NO ' '. ~ LUG, AND NOTIIING 31011 F.. •
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`Paws SEvENPENCL.

MR. OWEN.

ADDRESS TO THE OPERATIVE MANUFACTURERS
AND AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS IN GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
Industry, properly • directed, is the foundation of
wealth in human society ; or in other words, knot ledge•
and industry aro the sources of all wealth, except
which the earth spontaneously produces.
You have now more persevering industry than is to Ls
found, probably, ainoig any other portion of the human
vecA.

You obtain less weahh, *tut are subject to more cane
and anxiety than any other class.
•It rollowi, thit yobare deficient in knowledge, o:
these effects could not exist. Youe'skill and industry,
rightly directed, are sufficient to produce more wealtl,
than you could beneficiallruse, and to enable you to have
your children educated to make them superior, physically
and mentally, to any of the present generation.
But, to direct your skill and industry aright, you re-
quire knowledge of a superior description to any that has
yet been given to you ; and, above all things, you should
endeavour to obtain this knowledge, for it will enable
you to discover the necessity for union of mind and action
to relieve you from the difficulties by which you are sur-
rounded. And it will also discover to you the impossibility
of being united in mind and action, while you shall be
compelled to live under a system, the foundation of
which is an error, forced from infancy into the minds of
the whole population, in direct opposition to every known
fact.

In consequence of this error, you have been trained
in a system of deception, and in bad or inferior habits ;
and thus have been made the lower class in society, al-
though you are the actual producers of all the wealth
which is consumed in the British empire, and much that
is consumed by the population of many other districts,
in distant parts of the world; and yet by this system yet.
are prevented from producing more than a very small'
part, probably not one tenth of the real wealth which
your present skill and industry, rightly directed, would
enable you to bring into existence.
Such, then, is the necessity for you to acquire know-
ledge, to relieve you from the system which has place.l
you under such unfavourable circumstances, and which
has afflicted you with so many calamities.
You, and the existing population of the world have
been compelled to become irrational in your thoughts
and actions, and hence the misery and vicious character
not only of your class, but of the huMan race.

This irrational character has been created, by all re-
ceiving the impressions from infancy that they possess
the power to feel and to think as they please, although
as soon as an unprejudiced judgment can be applied to
the subject, it becomes evident that, there never existed
one single fact, to prove the supposition thus formed
and steadily maintained in the human mind, through all
ages which have passed.

It is this error which has created universal disunion
among the human race. It is this error which now
keeps you in bondage to your employers; to the non-
producing classes, and to all the vicious circumstances
which have necessarily arisen from the system of society
founded on this error.

Try to feel differently from what you are forced to feel ;
try to think differently from the conviction which you
are compelled to receive, and the impossibility of effect-
ing either, will break the spell produced by this most
oalamitous of all errors. Your mental chains will be
snapt asunder ; you will commence a new existence,
and the road to the highest viituas and most permanent
happiness will be straight before you, and most easy ei
attainment.

Acquire the knowledge which this simple experiment
will give, and you will soon attain moral courage star:-
dent to enable you to look with pity upon those w ho.
tht ough the effects of this error, have been compelled to
oppress you, even upon those who may be engaged at
this moment in active measures to endeavour to rivet molt•
securely those chains by which they suppose you are
held in bondage to them.
The invaluable knowledge which you will thus acquire.
will destroy all germs of anger and desire of revenge, and
it will till you with compassion for your oppressors and
opponer.ts. You will at once perceive the cause of the
malady which urges them on to the destruction of their
own happiness, and the well-being of all their fellows ;
and you will have no other feeling but a desire to remove
the cause of their malady, and to do them all the good in
tzspoewer. But you will have no merit for this coddoct,
the knowledge which you will acquire, by the
swans recommended, will compel you thus to feel, to
think, and to act.
A new day will arise upon you, in which there will be
so desire on the part of any to oppress or to offend ; and
every one will be, of necessity, filled with charity and
kindness for all his race.
Be not afraid that this change in human affairs will
not be now accomplished ; for there are none to oppoPe
its progress, except for a little time, because it will be
discovered to be for the interest of all thin it should be
now effected. 'lt will benefit every one beta thebilibest
to the lowest; nor is tberencw any power in tretu, 'Out-
ever inclination luny exist, to stay its cource, except for
a short period.
Truth will, henceforward, take the place- 'which error
the traseactiess of thouedd :
virtue Arie*, And
of. your nature ;
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