MIR. Owens Discourse on new system


Of Society.
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Placed as it now is before the public,
day ought not to be lost in stamping it with
it's proper terms of truth or fa.sehood.--Ihe
system now advocated can be of no cquivo-
cal character; it must be full Of benefit or OF
evil to YOU all; therefore bcseech you, toi
your sakes and for, the public benefit, to as
certain its value, that the people may know
whether have brought them vision to a
muse them, or a substantial blessing. 10
effect this object may be permitted to sug-
gest, that competent persons be appointed
under the name OF commissioners, or COM
mittee, or any other name, to examine the
whole subject, mere outline OF which, IN
this discourse, has been hastily and slightly
sketched. That after such exaJnination,
the parties appointed to investigate make a
report, for the satisfaction of the public,
whose interest are so deeply involved i'll the
result


In what has been said, l have cndeavcfed
to show, that the subject have introduced
is the most important that can engage the
attention of mankind; that the cause OF all
past and present evil in society is the notion
that there can be merit or demerlt IN any
belief whatever; that this error generates all
the bad passions, keeps them IN perpetual
activity, produces nothing but unhappness to





allowed to irrationalise each succeeding gen
Grafton, sin and misery must have dominion
over the world.


have stated, also, that, by the undcs lat
ing constitution of our common nature, each
individual has hitherto, been formed by the
circumstances which have been allowed to
exist around him from birth to manhood; that
these circumstances have been uniformly op-
posed to our constitution, and consequent
" Of very injurious character, producing
only various degrees of vice and misery.
afterwards explained what appeared to me
TO be the real constitution of our nature and
state; that, when circumstances Shall be
iudciously combined by those who have ac-
uuired an accurate knowledge OF 1t, that
each individual of our species, without a
single exception, may be trained to become
yirtuous, intelligent, and happy, to adegree
much exceeding what has been experienced
under the old system of society in any part
Of the world. Aud thus far only time al
lows me to proceed on the present occasion,


That which requires yet to be cXplAincG,
TO enable the public to form right juds-
lnent of the entire system now advocated, is
q detail Of the circumstances which, III
combination, isto possess sufficient power TO
produce the extraordinary results winch /
have promised, and doveiopcment OF tue
means BY which, without injury to any one,
they can be carried without delay into nation
al and general practice, so as to give, almost
Immediately, many Of the benefits OF the
change to the whole population OF the Eniail,
BY relieving them from poverty or the rear
of it, and very soon from ignorance, aid all
the lementable ELECTS which these t@o eriig
necessarily produce.