The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-05-26

states. is fully competent to form them int
countries OF palaces. gardens, and pleasure
grounds, and, in one generation to make tht
inhabitants a race of very superior beings.
! When the principles OH which this new
system is founded and the practices to which
they will necessarily lead shall be so inves
tIgated as to be fully understood, it will bs
discovered that the present system of soci
ETY. must almos. Immediately give way before
it.
The principles Of human nature, on which
its morals are founded, will render union
and cooperation, to any extent not only
easy but delightful in practice. The pecu-
MARY effects which will be produced by I'M
ion and cooperation, will make the division
and combination of labour, in the same per-
sons and interest, complete, and, in consc-
quence, all individual competition must
prove unavailing, and cause loss OF time and
capital.
am therefore, .lesrous that the knowl-
edge of this change being about to commence
should be speedily known over the Union,
that as little capital rs possible Should be
lost by it's application to objects which might
be rendered ofno value by the new measures
which may be soon carried into extensive
execution in all the state. Many, who have
partially considered this subject, and who
are converts to the principles, and fully a.
live to the benefits to be derived from the
practice, are, nevertheless, impressed with
the belief that the system can advance but
slowly, as other great changes have been CT
fected.
This supposition is very natural; it is IN
unison with the experience of the past; but
their minds have not yet had time to expand
to the full extent of this subject, and to dis
cover how different its character is from all
former changes. These have been merely
an alteration of the mode of acting, while
the fundamental principles remained nn-
touched; but, in the present case, there will
be an entire change of the fundamental
principles on which society has proceeded
in all countries, from the earliest period of
which we possess knowledge, to the present.
Compared with the mighty consequences
which must flow from this change, all for
mer revolutions in human affairs scarcely de-
serve name.
rhisis revolution from a system in which
individual reward and punishment has been
the universal practice, to one, in which indi-
vidual reward and punishment will be un-
practiscd and unknown, except as griev-
GUS error OF past wretched system. On
this account. my belief has long been, that
wherever so5riety should be fully prepared
to admit of one experiment on the new sys-
TEN, it could not fail to be also prepared to
admit th6principlc from which it has been
derived, and TO be ready for all the practice
which must cnanatc from the principle; and
in consequence, that the change Gould not
be one Of slow progression, but it must take
place at once, and make an mmcd ate, and
almost instantaneous, revolution in the minds
and manners of the society in which it shall
sc introduced-unless We can imagine that
there are human beings who prefer sin and
misery to virtue and happiness.
Let the subject be sifted and examined
with the most scrutinizing care and caution,
and it will prove to be as have now stated.
The truth is that tho great principle on
which the new system rests, is directly op
posed to that on which old society has been
founded they lead to the same opposition
in practice; and there is not the slightest
connection between them, nor IS it possible
they can long cxe: 5ethcr. For, whency-
er these two prin. ales Shall be brought Into
fair and open competition, one or other
must speedily prove to be false, and 4 mere
notion OF the imagination. The one attri-
butes merit and dcmcrt to belief. The 9TH
er gives neither merit or demcrit to any be-
lief, because belief has never been under the
will or CONTROL OF man. The one generates
in man anger and irritation because his fell
low man differs from him in sentiments,
habits, ana feelings. The other instructs
how mn are necessarily made to differ in
color, in language, in habits, in sentiments.
in religion, in feeling, and in conduct. and
thereby implants IN every one the principle
OF universal charity. bcncvulence, and kind
ness, and %itldraws all anger from the hu-
man Constitution. The one separates man
from man, inli, ilualizins the human race,
and thereby creating endless causes of di-
Wis on and opposition of interest aud of feel
ing, and thus generates and fosters all the
inferior motives and bad passions and ac-
tinns which have ever peryadcd society.
The other forms man at oncc into rational
being; and, By removing every cause of dis
like and jealousy, prepares the most effect
ual means to unisc him with his fellows, and
to combine them in one gencr Il system Of
action for their mutual benefit In short,
the one is, in reality, and imaginary notion
which has ever been impressed in infancy
On the mind OF the human race, in direct
opposition to every known fact; u notion
derived solely from the ignorance of the
darkest ages, and which has 50 perverted
the human faculties as, with slight excep-
tons to keep the whole race OF mcn almost
continually involved in war and violence, in
direct opopositi0n to the real interest of cv-
cry individual. While the other is prin-
ciplc derived from experience, in unison with
i al facte meet and a r,riucinlp ir \,