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[If we had not the reviewer's word as a guarantee 

 that the work noticed below was a serious production, it 

 might well be taken for a lost and recovered chapter, of 

 the description of the College of Projectors, in Gulliver's 

 voyage to Laputa. But as it seems the matter is no 

 joke, we insert the following extracts and commentary, 

 which may be taken, at the reader's option, either as 

 intelligence of the most marvellous and astounding agi-i- 

 cultural improvements, or merely as an amusing change 

 from dull matter-of-fact articles.] 



Ed. Farm. Reg. 



REVIEW, FROM AVALDIe's J0URIVAI> OF 

 BELLES LETTRES, (ATTACHED TO WALDIe's 



select circulating library.) 



The Paradise wiihin the reach of all men, wlthmii 

 labor, by powers of nature and machinery. Ad- 

 dressed to all intelligent men. By J. si. Etzler. 

 \1nin. pp. 215. Pittsburg, 1833. Etzler §• 

 Jieinhold. 



The term " march of intellect," has become so 

 common- place, as scarcely to be allowed in our 

 recent authorities ; but we must be permitted to 

 revive it on the present occasion, inasmuch as Mr. 

 Etzler has stolen a march upon all the intellects of 

 his predecessors, and we apprehend his successors 

 also. What think you, ye laborers with the spade 

 and the pen, has been accomplished in the brain 

 of this western luminary : — trul}' nothing short of 

 the greatest happiness of the human species, and 

 all, as he expresses it, by the use of " machineries!" 

 He out-Owens Owen himself, and bids fltir if he 

 can get his macliineries into operation, to l)e the 

 greatest benefactor of liis race. He shows in this 

 neat little book, " that there are powers in nature, 

 sutficient to effect in one year, more than hitherto 

 all men on earth could do in many thousands of 

 years, and that those powers may be applied to all 

 human labor," and he moreover shows " the sys- 

 tem of establishments for it," without any pros- 

 pect of taking out a patent, but for the mere 

 pleasure of benefitting his fellow men. 



That we may not be accused of misinterpreting 

 our erudite author, we quote his own programme 

 first, and shall then proceed briefly to his mode of 

 operating: 



" Fellow-men ! — " I promise to show the means 

 tor creating a paradise within ten years, where 

 every thing desirable for human life may be had 

 for every man in superabundance, without labor, 

 without pay; where the whole face of nature is 

 changed into the most beautiful form of which it 

 be capable ; w here man may live in the most 

 magnificent palaces, in all imaginable refinement 

 of luxury, in the most delightful gardens; Avhere 

 he may accomplish, without !iis labor, in one year 

 more than hitherto could be done in thousands of 

 years ; he may level mountains, sink valleys, 

 create lakes, drain lakes and swamps, intersect 

 every where the land with beautiful canals, v/ith 

 roads for transporting heavy loads of many thou- 

 sand tons and for travelling 1000 miles in 24 hours ; 

 he may cover the ocean with floating islands, 

 moveable in any desired direction with immense 

 power and celerity, in perfect security and in all 

 comforts and luxury, bearing gardens, palaces, 

 with thousands of families, provided witli rivulets 

 of sweet water ; he may explore the interior of 

 the globe, travel from pole to pole in a fbrtniglit ; 



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he may provide himself with means unheard of 

 yet, for increasing his knowledge of the world, and 

 so his intelligence; he ma}' lead a life of continual 

 happiness, of enjoyment unknown yet, he may free 

 himself from almost all the evils that afflict man- 

 kind, except death, and even put death far beyond 

 the common period of human life, and finally ren- 

 der it less afflicting; mankind may thus live in, 

 and enjoy a ne^v world flir superior to our pre- 

 sent, and raise themselves to a far higher scale of 

 beings." 



And now for the means : — 



" The powers are chiefly to be derived 1) from 

 wind, 2) fi'om the tide, or the rise and fall of the 

 ocean caused by the gravity between the moon and 

 the ocean, and 3) from the sun-shine, or the heat of 

 the sun, by which water may be transformed into 

 steam, whose expansive power is to operate upon 

 machineries, though by a contrivance different 

 from that actually in use. 



The \yaves of the ocean are also powers to be 

 applied, but as they are caused by wind, they are 

 included in the power of wind. Each of these 

 powers requires no consumption of materials, but 

 nothing but the materials for the construction of 

 the machineries. 



1 shall begin with agriculture. 



The first object is here to clear the ground from 

 all spontaneous growtli and stones. 



1) A machine of large size is to move along, 

 and while moving, to take the trees of all sizes 

 with their roots out of the ground, to cut them in 

 convenient pieces, to pile them up, and to take all 

 stones out of the ground to any required depth. 



2) A second machine is to follow, tor taking up 

 the piles of wood and stones, and transporting the 

 same to the places of their destination; this ma- 

 chine may carry thousands of tons at once. 



3) Tlie wood removed to its places for final use, 

 is then to be formed into planks, boards, beams, 

 rails, pieces for fuel and for any other purpose, by 

 a simple contrivance, from whence it is to be re- 

 moved to the places where it be wanted; this is 

 done by one machine, which may also cut stones 

 of any size. 



4) The first mentioned machine, with a little 

 alteration, is then to level the ground perfectly, in 

 planing it, filling the excavations or taking off the 

 elevations of ground until all is level. If the hills 

 or valleys are considerable, the same machine cuts 

 terraces, winding round them up to the top in ele- 

 gant sha})es. 



The same machine may make any excavation or 

 elevation, cut canals, ditches, ponds of any size and 

 shape, raise dams, artificial level roads, walls and 

 ramparts with ditches around fields as enclosures, 

 with walks on their top, form walks and paths 

 with elevated borders. 



5) The same machine, with some other little al- 

 teration, is to give to the ground its final prepara- 

 tion for receiving the seed; it tills the ground, in 

 tearing t'le soil up to any required depth, refining 

 or mouldering the same, sifting all small roots and 

 stones from it, and putting the seed into the ground 

 in any way required. 



6) The same machine may take good fertile 

 ground from one place to some other, for covering 

 at any required depth, poor soil with fertile soil of 

 the best mixture. 



7) The same machine, with' a little addition, 

 may reap any kind of grain or vegetable, thrash 



