The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-25
The Great Problem OF the Age.

TO THE EDITOR HERALD
SR-One Of your correspondents who Is too busy to
attend to tho most important and real business Of life
asks to have stated shortly What is the great problem
Of the to be solved and how it has been Is to DO
solved" The problem then is shortly this
The mechanical and chemical discoveries Of the last
and present century have permanently given society,"
with the addition Of light and healthy manual exercise
mot labor when directed by knowledge Of the science
Of society," power more than sufficient to produce supe.
ror qualities OF wealth annually to exceed the utmost
wants of well trained and nationally educated popula
ton in all countries.
ducton of wealth owing to the most false and
principles which the character of has been
cd and society constructed and governed has been
applied as to produce vast uperhuy of certain kind
OF riches for few, OF most injurious to them, but
which sinks the mass millionsinto the lowest depths
OF poverty, dependence aud degradation forming most
injurious and for all classes most dangerous and unhap
py state of EXISTENCE state which has cmanated solely
from the natural born ignorance of the human
their Imagination being the earliest faculty in activity
In consequence Of this natural ignorance of a at BIRTH
and that long period to give great experience
pressions of inexperienced savage and hafcvized &C.
nerations most detective and highly VICIOUS character
has been hitherto given to all past generations and to
the present generation; and hence the continued
ignorance, poverty, contests vocnces evil passions
crimes, and gross irratonaty Of all in every country
The problem to be solved then is, how to apply this IL
imable power for the creation of wealth; and this
new knowledge Of human nature and society not deriv
ed from Imagination unsupported by facts but from tho
most substantial facts change since
came into existence and supported by every fact
known through the history of our race to ensure full
supply, at all times of the most valuable and desirable
wealth. and superior physical mental moral and prac
tical character for all, from birth to death
This problem is solved by the discovery Of trinity of
sciences, which will enable society the
practical arrangements Of nil countries without conf
sion injury to any in such that oil shall be
always wealthy Intelligent actively well occupicd good
In the fullest of that term-and consequently as
happy through life as those qualities make human
nature when surrounded solely with vrtuou superior
and rational circumstances These circumstances
prepared ready to be carried into immediate execution
over Europe and America, and other parts Of the
earth, railways, steam vesses and lightning
gers extending, and will be extended in all dircc-
ons, until the darkest of the world shall be m
minated with mental and moral light And thus will this
chaotic pandemonium of contentious and confusion be
speedily changed to terrestrial paradseoccupied
by rational, superior beings who will then treat all
the animal creaion with as much mercy and kindness
as will be compatible with the permanent being of
man
This change, when made true principles, will be
found to be- In practice easy and most delightful to all
ROBERT OWEN
VarJ