The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-05-05
The Good Time that IL coming To make all or
the Human Race, good, Intelligent, active
o,,d n by RsIIer Owen.

the Human Race, good Intelligent, active
aud happy, by Robert Owen.
discovery of one unchangng fact after another is
If wisely and kindly applied sufficient to terminate Tor
ever the very gross state Of rraonaity in which the
population OF the world through born ignorance has
been kept and is now involved .
1t is only that this experience has made IL evident
to those and reflect accurately and extern
svely that there is but one true permanent ihteres,
among the humaa race, and which VIII remain through
all succeeding generations When TINS interest," can
be made palpable to the ruling powers OF society,
they WILL of necessity, act upon it. because their own
happiness their immediate and distant pos
terity will depend upon it. and this desire for happiness
called selshness il that which has boon made per-
mently and generally to influence all that has life.
Human nature from the beginning has been created TO
be thus influenced for the west purposes even as IL
to s sss
mankind now prove to be for their highest permanent
happiness
pleasant for their habitation.
I'd. That each one of the family of man shall be made
superior in temper, mind, manner and conduct.
3D. That the human shall be trained gradually to
become one family united cordially in interest and afec-
ton, and all competition, contests, and wars, between
them to forever
4th. That all shall be well educated in family equali
y and we employed placed and governed according to
age and capacity as in well conducted family.
9Th That the head of the family shall be alone respon
sbe for the physical mental moral and practical char
acter given to its children, and each child through
proper education from BIRTH shall be made, by giving
him an accurate knowledge of his nature to have
pure charity for the varied character conduct
every other member of the family when at birth,
they may have been imperfectly formed.
This imperfection itself being to require from
the family attention and sympathy to make
amends far may be practicable for this imperfec
ton of nature But in two or three generations parents
will be 80 improved by these new principles that the
tural defects of past and present be con
IDENTIFY expected to and superior progeny or in
FAINT material be produced ut birth
To effect this change, society must be recognized
from its formation through all its ramifcations Yet the
change must not be effected through violence or disorder
but wisely, with foresight, prudenty and gradually 1t
should be executed in like manner as the world Is now
supersedng the old physical roads by railways not i'm
properly called mental railways railways being emana
tons from mental discoveries through the accumulation
of facts aifording the required experience
6. That there shall be dronss useless members
trained in this family; but all according to age and
power shall be made to be efficient and always benef
cay but pleasantly occupied for the general good and
happiness Of the family, well of the individual
7. That there shall be no more distinction OF private
that the natural Individuality of each male and female
shall be amply provided for through life and more eec-
tuslly than under the existing system tenn -
branches each branch composed Of numbers that can
be the most conveniently well lodged fed, clothed edu
Gated, employed, amused and governed
That each branch shall be cordially united in inte
rest and affection with every other branch, when
thus widely extended friendly family communication
may be easily made daily between them by the light
ming telegraph.
10 Each of these family branches to be always open
to every member of the great family wherever two
apartments in them are unoccupied and disengaged
IL. That these family branches shall never exceed
three thousand men, women and children in their usual
proportions.
tend according to natural fertility and other crcum
stances from to two for each individual of oil
ages which quantity under this system, will be ample
for their support forever.
IS. That dwellings, properly constructed, fire proof,
and united to form large square will afford greater al
vantage with fewer disadvantages than other present
known arrangements; and thus will all the family
branches be relieved from the inferior and injurious ar
rangements of streets lanes courts alleys and all such
vicious places for human residences
14h The arrangements for business will be upon the
principles generally in the form Of square free,
open, spacious healthy and as pleasant the occupa
tions which the family knowledge and means will admit
18TH Instead of the present most irrational opposing
and injurious classification of ETY., there viii be
family classification and government far more simple
than the present, and much more h"ehcial than tho
existing isolated family arrangemen A new cassid-
cation devised to produce and lstribute wealth,
well-educate employ, and govern ALL will be made
by superior arrangements a pleasure and everlast-
ing pastme and in which there will be no waite of ma
terals, capital time. Probably much less than the
present irrational waste Of materials, capital, time
and labor made under the present system of ignorance
poverty dsunion and crime will be sufficient to build
this state of society and produce in perpetuty the
happiness promised in the millennium.
10th AS man is to an illimiable extent the creature
of the circumstances in which he placed these family
townships to be formed, arranged and constructed
that not inferior circumstance Of mans creation
shall be introduced if introduced through error al
lowed to remain After the formation OF regular organi-
cation of these townships family residences the only
slaves servants found within them will be those Of
peror mechanism and chemistry always obedicnt to d.
recton Slaves and servants should be- and in future
will be- alone made Of wood, iron brass, materials
without sensation or conscious degradation Human
slaves and will be objects too irrational and in
erior to be by children intended to be well educa
ted The few simple laws requisite in the present
half barbarous state society for the preliminary GO
vernment of these family townships have been published
in proposed constitution for the State of New York.
with detailed for each of its but after the pre-
sent enormously trained generation the succeeding
eratons educated and placed stated, to become
tonal beings will require only four permanent funda-
mental laws of humanity to govern all the affairs Of the
family townships the world.
These four unchangng fundamental laws ofhumanity
First That the Creating Spirit of Nature, God has
created the general qualities of humanity which form
and given to each individual at birth without his
knowledge the peculiar compound of those qualities,
which he is thereby forced to possess and for which he
deserve praise or blame.
Second That this infant material is given in the most
duce state to society, to FORM manufacture accord
ing to its knowledge, into inferior and irrational
being. into superior rational being And thus God
the material and society into
inferior superior fabric being without the ossib
ity Of opposition from the material will of the ind
vidual.
Third That the feelings thoughts opinions and con-
duct of each of these beings always the natural and
necessary combined results Of his organization, and Of
the influences upon it, by the circumstances whether in
ferior and bad, superior and good in which society
places it, And thus, the whole character of man is
formed for him. and may be made by society either good
or bad regardless Of the supposed free will Of the ind
vidual.
Fourth That man. like all that has life desires to DO
happy, and when the means by which it may be obtain
ed has been discovered and made obvious him, he
wiof necessity most willingly pursue it, If sufficient
physical and mental power have been previously given
to him; and if they have not it his misfortune and
the is in nature and society and the individual
instead Of punishment requires more care attention,
sympathy and aid in proportion to his natural
ty the ignorance of society in malformng his cha
racter.
When any generation fadults shall act justly to infants
and children, and therefore beneicay to ITSELF by max
ing all its arrangements laws governments and institu-
ons in accordance with these four fundamental laws of
humanity all anger ill-will, contests, violence,
falsehood, and all crimes, will the whole
earth and the world will be governed by kindness and
charity directed by sound and consistent judgment n
stead of the irrational principles hitherto alone pract
sed of force, fears fraud and falsehood
Thus is the great problem of the age solved and this
is the good time that il coming
ROBERT OWEN
New York, April DC, lsi1
Law Intelligence
SUPREME COURT, May 4th-Present, Chief Justice
Bronson and Justices Beardsey and Jewtt-Afcr hear
in n few mi porfa tho urt took In