To thc Editors oftile ySiln.inytonia,
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Candidates for fame, like tAe lovely tnr, can
bear no rivals.


have just now had a number of the " "nerean"
put INTO my hands, III winch is the commence
ment OF q review OF Robert Owens "Views" ana
New system of Society," which not nav,ng any
apparent practical object in view, have conclu-
ded that a review of the reviewer woulu proba-
bly, convince some of the readers of your paper,
that writing for tame is agreeable pastn,e.


The reviewer, whom we recognize as the edi-
tor, has long laboured in a good cause, and /
hope with proportionate success, to become j4-
NOUS. Whatever may be his real object in com
mencinS the review before us, is TO me unknown.
lhe only motive which can discover from 4 Pc
fusal OF the production, is this; that as Robert
owen has become man of deserved celebrity,
Hom his great exertions in practical philanthro-
py, the editor wishes to make it appear to the
world that he is greater metaphysician and a
wiser man than Robert Owen. Unfortunately
ior the latter, his doctrine of circumstances"
-uhs counter to the editors hobby, and is of
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