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The Pickering Masters Selected Works of Robert Owen The Book of the New Moral World Edited by Gregory Claeys THE PICKERING MASTERS SELECTED WORKS OF ROBERT OWEN Volume 3. The Book of the New Moral World SELECTED WORKS OF ROBERT OWEN EDITED BY GREGORY CLAEYS VOLUME 3 THE BOOK OF THE NEW MORAL WORLD Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 1993 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © Taylor & Francis 1993 General Introduction © Gregory Claeys 1993 All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this bookmay be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Owen, Robert Works of Robert Owen. - (Pickering Masters Series) I. Title II. Claeys, Gregory III. Series 335.0092 ISBN: 978-1-851-96088-0 (set) Typeset by Waveney Typesetters Norwich CONTENTS Introductory Note vi THE BOOK OF THE NEW MORAL WORLD First Part (1842) 1 Second Part (1842) 81 Third Part (1842) 125 Fourth Part (1844) 193 Fifth Part (1844) 241 Sixth Part (1844) 299 Seventh Part (1844) 361 v INTRODUCTORY NOTE The bibliographical details of the various Parts of The Book of the New Moral World are as follows: Part One editions, Glasgow 1836; Glasgow, 1837; Glas gow, 1840; abridged editions 1838 and 1840. A French edition of Part One was published at Paris, c. 1838. Parts Two and Three appeared in 1842, Parts Four to Seven in 1844. The first American edition was published in 1845, and another edition of the complete work appeared in 1849. An abridged French edition, Le Livre du Nouveau Monde Moral appeared in 1848 and it was reprinted in 1849 and 1852. There was a German translation, Das Buch der neuen moralischen Welt in 1840. The 1842 edition of Parts One to Three is reprinted here; it has been reprinted in 1970. vi THE BOOK OV THE NEW MORAL WORLD, CONTAINING THE RATIONAL SYSTEM OF SOCIETY, FOUNDED ON DEMONSTRABLE FACTS, DEVELOPING THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF HUMAN NATURE AND OF SOCIETY. BY ROBERT OWEN. Truth, without Myitcry, Mixture of Error or Fear of Man, can, alone, emancipate the Human Race,from Sin and Misery. IN SEVEN PARTS. PART I. XanBoti: PUBLISHED BY THE HOME COLONIZATION SOCIETY, AT THEIR OFFICE, 57, PALL MALL, AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. MDCCCXLII. TO HIS MAJESTY, WILLIAM IV., KING OF GREAT BRITAIN, etc. Sire, Circumstances, not under your controul, have placed you at the head of the most powerful association of men for good or for evil, that has hitherto existed in any part of the globe; and other circumstances are about to arise, also beyond your controul, which will render it necessary for you, Sire, and those whom you may call to your councils, to decide whether this power shall be now directed to produce the good or the evil. The book, the first part of which, with this letter prefixed, I submit to your Majesty, contains truths, of the highest import to you, Sire, to every member of your family; to every subject of the wide-spread empire over which you preside; to every human being, high or low, now living and to all those who shall live hereafter. It unfolds the fundamental principles of a new moral world, and it thus lays a new foundation on which to re-construct society and re-create the character of the human race. It opens to the family of man, without a single exception, the means of endless progressive improvement, physical, intellectual, and moral, and of happiness, without the possibility of retrogression or of assignable limit. Society has emanated from fundamental errors of the imagination, and all the institutions and social arrangements of man over the world have been based on these errors. Society is, therefore, through all its ramifications, artificial and corrupt, and, in consequence, ignorance, falsehood, and grave folly, alone govern all the affairs of mankind. Under your reign, Sire, the change from this system, with all its evil consequences, to another founded on self-evident truths, insuring happiness to all, will, in all probability, be achieved; and your name, and the names of those who now govern the nations of the world will be recorded, as prominent 3
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