Robert Owen's millennial gazette Author:Robert Owen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nature he is compelled to have, and upon which freedom 'the union, rationality, permanent peace, and happiness of the race depend. I will now wait to see if t... more »he medicine now given to my poor deeply suffering follow men is sufficiently strong to cure them of the fatal disease of ignorant prejudices which has so long rendered them unable to see the plain open path to truth, union, wisdom, goodness, and happiness. ROBERT OWEN. Sevenoaks Park, Sevenoaks, Jan 25th, 1858. THE SPIRIT, PRINCIPLE, AND PRACTICE, BY WHICH THE OLD SYSTEM OF FALSEHOOD, IGNORANCE, AND EVIL IS TO BE SUPERSEDED BY THE NEW SYSTEM OF TRUTH, WISDOM, AND GOODNESS. Falsehood, ignorance, and evil, emanate from the extraordinary delusion which has pervaded the human mind through all past ages,—" that the created could " and " did create its own qualities and powers, whether material, or mental, or spiritual." Truth, Wisdom, and goodness, can alone emanate from the knowledge of the fact that the created cannot by any possibility possess one quality or power not given to it by its Creator. The consequence of the universal delusion on this all-important subject has been all the evil of man's past existence to the present hour. The consequence of the truth of this subject will be universal perpetual progress and happiness. For this great fundamental truth is the only true and solid foundation for universal love and charity;and until these two great principles of action can be made to pervade the human race, it will be vain to look for rationality among mankind. But as soon as arrangements shall be made to give this character from birth to all for every day practice, then will man become rational in mind and practice, and the population of the world will enjoy perpetual peace and harmony. The gr...« less