The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-07 00:00:00

Before they can ima2ine with how much facility, under
a system of union and 'wand co-operation, more really
val able knowledge can be coumunicated to all children,
'lisle and female, before the arc of twelve, than is now
possessed by those who hive finished their education in
the hest of the learned universities in the world, they
must see and bear a mass of children, born in the lowest
rank of life confound the wisdom of the wise by their
talents and acquirements.
Before they can believe that human h ings, thus gifte I
and informed, will cheerfully and with the greatest delight
occupy themselves, day by day and year after year, in
doing and producing whatever is necessary for their own
well being and happiness, they must actually witness the
fact and he allowed to investigate the results, to be con
viewed that no deception or legerdemain has been practised
upon them.
Before they can admit it to be passihle, that these same
persons being thus employed, awl knowing at the same
time that all around then) are, equally nit,' themselves,
to share the fruits of all their inaustry, will permanently
experience far more satisfaction and pleasure, than any
people now derive from their supposed selfaiirected oc-
cupations and amusements; they frost he ape( tators of
the daily and hourly proceeding of this new race of beings,
trained under a system opposite in all respects to their
own.

Before they can be made to conceive how these peo-
ple shall arrange, manage, and direct, all the affairs of life,
not only without contest, counteraction, or competition of
any kind, but with the most perfect harmony, and with a
cheerfulness and activity that will preclude any approach
to ennui, tameness, or lassitude ; they must he in the
midst of their society, and be eye witnesses of hourly en-
joyment and of active pleasures. of which men of oil so-
ciety have no other weans of forming any rational con-
ception.
Before they cart suppose it to he within the Wands of
possibility that these people shall set no value whatever
on individual wealth, honours, or personal distinctions of
any kind, and feel real commiseration for those who do ;
they must, with their own eyes, see them abandon all pri•
vete property, define all honours and personal distinctions.
and be, at the same time, in possession of more enjoyment
than the most wealthy individuals. or the most powerful
riders of states, have ever yet experienced.
Before they can deem it otherwise than the wildest
vision that human beings shall thus congregate, harmonize,
and actively enjoy—improve day by day in dispositions,
habits, manners, and health, and continually advance in
knowledge and happiness—they must have the actual scene
placed before them.
Before they can give the slightest credit to the asser-
tion,
that none of these people shall possess anger, jeal-
ousy, reventre, hatred. or any of the inferior feelings or
passions, and get experience; more exquisite enjoyment
from all their rational and natural sentiments and propen-
sities, than liuman nature has ever yet attained, they must
indeed he eye-witnesses of tuch a state of society, and
themselves be wade to feel, in some degree, its happy
effects.
Before, in short, they can allow the practicability of pro-
during these hovel results, and of bringing them to pass
without heir) from their old notions of individual reward and
punishment, here and hereafter, they must, with their own
eyes, see the whole system in full operation :—.And, even then,
so deep-rooted are the prejudices which they have been
forced to entertain against human nature, that they will,
fur a time, almost doubt the evidence of their own senses.
Yet these are the certa.o and necessary results of a system,
whose first and periading principles exclude all hostile feel-
isgs, as unjust and irrational—all selfishness, as direcly ren-
dering self unhappy—all inconsistency in principle, ,as pro-
ducing only evil in practice—and all force or violence as de-
feating their own object.
Thenew system obtains these delightful results,not by meant
of individual excitements and opposing interests, but by gene-
ral union and mutual co-operation ; not by precepts and admo-
nitions, but by removing every motive, which can possibly
create a single evil propensity.
Thus, and thus only, can the period ever arrive when the
earth shall be at peace, when men shall becoMe as brethren
of one family, when there shall be but one language and
one people, and when there shall be none to make them
afraid.

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And therefore is the new system the only one that can
ever produce, or secure to the human race intelligence, virtue
or happiness.
la soy next I shill state what has already been done to In-
duce a general examination of its principles by all classes and
per ties, preparatory to its adoption in practice.
ROBERT OWEN.
New Lanark, October 21, 1523.

An order has been sent to Mr. Wun'ner. from the Office
of the Secretary for the Borne. Department, directing that
lorry female convicts should he tOrthwith sent to Wool-
wich, there to embark on hoard the Brothers for New South
Wake. Sixty inure female convicts are to be sent from
different prisons in the coontry on is •ard the same vesiel,
which engages to carry oat 700 Several of the women
have been already engaged as servants in the place of their
destination. The children of the women are allowed to
accompany them.
Some time between last Saturday evening and Monday
morning the counting house of Charles Lawrence, Eaq.
Mayor of Liverpool, was entered, and th• drawers titled of
a' Out 3:01. in notes and rash, anal s veral bills of exchange,
the whole atuonning to upiaards of 3900 i. The thieves so
ingeniously avoided exter or violence, as to prove they are
adepts in their professiou.—(Maischester Alercary.)