190 Mr. Owen’s Establishment at New-Harmony. 
which they had been accustomed to live. The knowledge 
of each other, necessary to diffuse that confidence which is the 
main spring of social order in communities, was much easier 
¢ereated among a small number of friends, of much the same 
trade and profession, than in a mixture of callings, the rela- 
tive ways of which, in the individual systempwere too different 
to be at first easily reconciled to their former opinions of their 
own interest. Besides the scale was too extended, in large 
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already two societies are formed; one with 1200 acres of 
good land ; the other with 1100 acres, at $3,60 cents and at 
$5 per acre, 7 years credit being allowed, and 5 years after- 
wards to pay it; 1-5 of the sum being paid per year. An 
begin with, and 5 per cent. interest charged until all is paid. 
The condition is annexed, that the said land will always re- 
main in joint communities and never be divided into individ- 
ual property, under the penalty of forfeiture. In order to 
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farnishing every supply on better terms than can 
be d elsewhere, warrant us to ‘expect, that very soon, 
the whole land about New-Harmony will be settled upon the 
same conditions. = 
te prejudices of men against making any use- 
ful or radical change (for the insignificant change of the cut 
=e . a . gh 
_ with avidity) has, for a long time, prevented me 
rom putting in teers what I would have called experi- 
mean 
came reiorm amongst the same useful class, I have joined bim 
sn all his undertakings, on this side of the Atlantic, and we 
