Star.
London, England, 1817-08-30 00:00:00

MR. OWEN'S P L.IN.

TO THE EDiTok OF THL STAR.
August 22, Ill?.
Sin As the ardent and sincere advocate tit the
1)14t.4 ter Mr °WPM. I beg I .vr lay before the
Pr+ .c nn v." view of the subject. P. 1114;,s it WI
rn iv, when 11:e tin 'tier it comei Iron.
is tittle r nutter d. At present I have on connesicii•
wit,. Mr. ()we.. thunt.h I am proud of in opportunity
Of myself a volunteer in Wei) a service.
Yon* Ete. JtistPil WIniTrIN
TO THE fIPPONEN I S OF MR. OWE'!" SYS rEm.
CANTLsnin —You say you do not comprehend the princi-
ples moon eines the theory of Yr Owen ...trends, and that
therefore I 'ey are Mashes• and v
. •I rep'', that in isr.ler to comprehend tin ro fray, ynti must
study hem to II ; and that in order to a ,mprehend Ii -to at all.
you map fir.t to all acquire et me little knowledge of the very
Brit pc-V43oles of political economy
, will etideavour v. explain this metier.
'lle wealth of every nation is ccimpoied of i.s ieteltiref and
liodettive populatiot, and this wealth ill hr greater or less in
proportion to he somber ut such pivots
This is a proposition that never was drat el tilt lately. It may
serve are CUM, n make it still do Mot. First, own. ti.. wealth
depends on the iskiligniu of such poptihenn; because, without
Well genet they wilt dissipate their intist.try in fruitless and en
profitable pursuits—in the building of pyramids, in the waste of
wars, and in 011ie 'Miles of a -under kind. besides, intelligence
will make the people happy by &spelling the fogs iii ignorance;
mid the hattimese of the people is the bee riate, of a nation.—
Secondly, et depends on lb it produriv.nee‘. los principle will
be be-t unite rood by negations To wit. Every idle avemkr is a
hurls. n the community, being of precisely the sante use that
weeds art in a crop of corn, or drones its a Live of hers. 'floret',
it depends on their number Because this cireunietatice make.
them mire or less powerful its respect of other nations, and thus
- places their happier s snore out of the reach of contingencies- It
al.° increases the quantity of their valuable productions, and re•
tends the best of ail inerkets.--to wit, the krone market.
Question 2 littt may not a nation become too populous, and
tutus be in dessert front the want of subsistence ? Answer—No.
The eatert• ,t : opulwion is limited by this very clrcunistancet
Jar it es. impossible to increase population beyond the swans of '
subeistrecr. In which case the proper remedy is Colonisation;
and anti! the period arrives at which the whole earth will be
overstocked, there can be no serious impediment to this MU& of
relief. I lien, and out ill then, a remedy wit' be wanted.
suppose we need nut cones VD conceives wash about this coot's-
gency. Srasudly. . a nation near nuked raid us population be-
yond i a rum frediestioe means &largesse; for with the surplus
produce ut see labours it may purchase stom Ir., is• puked, nations
the surplus of their rood. his is the fir. prism pie of summer•
cal relatioia •' and it is easy to conceive how on this principle,
an indestrions people might exist on a barren ruck in the midst
of the era liut the practice might, tor obvious reasons, he dam
serous to a great nation.
Q. 3. What. then, is the muss, that, with a great population,
both intelligent and industrious, and Immense stacks of land as
yet uncrlitva.ett, our country is sunk into the most abject pm
Testy ?—:e causes are tualtlform, aid there needs no list of
them, bv...tt e he greatest of them all may be instantly removed
by morels ..y rah, id it bedew I
Q. 4. 'I o w-at came do you now allude?—A. !allude to the
extensive use es, siae..ritory, which has In a great degree super.
sealed the sis mind for manual labour, and thus converted into
weeds and dittoes one million at least or our moat useful citizens.
Q 5. Had we out better, then, &devour teachings ?-41, By
no mean, for that will be Wing to other countries (wh. will rat
thew) the timer of underselling to every matte of the world,
and what es worst of all, they wail du so is ear hew Wow
this carom tut would increase the evil is pretends tugs lardy.
Q 6. Writ. then can ere du with these id r bands ? Shall
we Meet t mode. w waren% them so des, b,, or plasm sato wars
for the baker of o.scroytes them ?—A.-trots forbid! 'L'M experi-
ment har bs t, tried over and over, and it will slot du The pro-
per and the wily method is in employ these supstititous bandana the
cultist. lugs a rani , and by that names enable them to Mae

their rye salui.haer
Q. 7 out hew can we do this to the most advantage I—A.
Aye, there tt .s! I hat secret you must learn from Mr. OWIIII
he oleos, ot a . mankind, is able to evade. you, sad what is hes:
of ii., .e withal I he is ready I And when Icessemplater the
of ,14.. way a. Die pica, comer.ted.sis they are ebb moral
iniproVeni. ut and with remote sensequatess, I Fromm& them,
without feat of cite-rem, the most sublime predicates% of ken
man hit. tea the world ever • sw.
r. But, Dir, you are growing very einbusiastie es this sub-
ject I—A I ant, :11.. sad so whirs when you comprebead it,aod
it requires nothing but sober attentiou to enable you to do so.
Q. if. Pray, Sir, what ha. enabied you to outgrip your fellows
In this race of supposed totalisator I will red you 1 he
• antecedent ihdiverance wow that fog of perdedick io which you
are envelop. d, insentuch that at presses you are not only mmHg
lb overtake me, but you cannot even see which way t Myopias.
The seed ha. tallest lute cultivated ground, and will bring forth
its (rubs an hundred fold.
duce yea are so vastly wise. Worm us—ls not muck
of the public distress owing to bad seasons and dation crops;
and well not the return of plenty remove our coomisints
The loss et their crops is the steatret calamity that cm betel a
penile, except the loss of their moral energies. Plentiful seisms
may therefore aureate our distresses, but they will set remove
them. 1 bey will at Seat astable es to maintain oar poor with less
espeose' but they will aeon reduce the value of our moods iu the
same propertioe. making the evil " as broad as it is tem." We
do sot complain so much of a sanity died as et the waft of
antatersent to enable us to earn it.
• t i. And where shall we lad it I—A. I havli told you
*heady!
Q. if. Bet is there no ether way ?—A. No owe l assure you;
sad why should you dwarf any other way
Q IS. Suppose these remelts should prove tees, le dim no
eller to the public tranqiillity Ist making them bootee f—A.
None— Ise, Because k never mette'permanently useful to conceal
Reel masikind their moldseger.-141y, It is also meek.' to teach
them what is not tem.-441y, It is dangerous to teach them what.
yen cannel metopes* wit tine; for in so doing you involve them
le perpetual contention and hostility with me another 3---sthly,
The wads timid can one no longer be cot crated.
Q. 14. What do you propose to do in this emergency ?—A. To
teach them what is trot and again else.
Q. IS. Will not this desuoy miberaleation and plunge to into
all the miseries of anarchy and confusion By no niter's;
due makirdiestion is the doctrine wean to incubate; and to
eeevine• mankind that it is their Interest to de their duty.
Q. ie. How will you manage this ?—.t. Upon a system of
benevolence.
• Alas Alas! You will destroy the energies of the
p
Yon will speech emulation. You will banish all taus
ter the Fine Asts and the embellishments of life!!
A! I do out think so. Gradtude. when &sifted, is a more active
principle than fear I Platy a more liberal patron than starve-
Moe; and 1 never yet so muck as Atari et the Falb! Arcs ansumg
a nation of starving savages. .
Q. ice. You think, then, that kindness will go farther than
amnesty f—A. indeed I di.
Q. 90. Have you always acted cm this principle rimer!' ?
A. Alas! Ne—l lamest to say it.
Q. it. Why did you Dot l—A. Because I never peretithd till
of late the Intimate connection that calms between hit iciness and
gratitude, and because I have always been surrounded by those
who perceived it even less than myself.
Q te. How do you propose to act I—A. I propose in the first
place to refornintyself, and then to instruct oilers.
Q. 53. Why do you avow your sentiments f—A. For the sake
et eaample.
aVemir.—Aecordins to your visions we may espect a fine
world won a golden age at trace, perhaps a return of the Ger-
des of Baru L.A. We may so, with the tree orknowleder 110ut
nobles iii the midst of it I
ukjugsr.--Vtliy ! our wisest sages have been long expeethig
the end of the world, and have founded their opinions on very
rim cakelations. You seem to predict a very different state of
things —A Baker me. Sir, the world ts (44 jolt beginning to
mat. and yet the day of judgment is at hand—the day of sound
Judgment Ind of true rational enjoyment. There, bk, is a para.
des its amuse those who love eke cakuladons.
Q. t 4. What think Ice of the astounding truth proposed by
pulor I orreos, *is. " 1 hat imputation at last sum press amnia
subsistence r at. In the first place, I think 1 have answered it
already ; is the 9d, the Major does not to ore to under.
maid what be says. Respects Whim his undentatodand and we

htart, mut conclusion—for i 1 le ni.,!e-sti nil his principle,
he would I,e ashamed to avuw it. And attar ail, worn properly
ntideratuoi, it proves ja t this—that a thousand years hence two
std two will make four—to which we answer—And so they
will now.
(049.mr.—Y ma will certainly get either a halter or a strait
was:octal for the avowal of the.* sentiments. A. I can not—

mow. I !rave done my duty.
*w.f.—Yoe have said, that some time ago you had the tno
desty .0 believe yourself as igr (want as we are. How aunt you
by this buchitis f—A 'I he elummatiou has not been
si.dtlen,—it bat, been forced civil me by a ikr.es rat events which
I could not COIN MIAL I have stumbled on from we cuojecture to
r, till at kng'h I fell itria rite right.
Q. How do you know this ?—rt. Iltesuse I eau probe It.
so.—A. I have!
Q. What then arts Ito undone:id as .he result of all your
stuesiblings That it is our duty to love one another.