tensity and impetus which get the thing done while 

 common folks are thinking about it. 

 Owen was familiar 'with every detail of his vast busi- 

 ness, and he was an expert in finance. Like Napoleon 

 he said, "The finances? I will arrange them." 

 Robert Owen erected schoolhouses, laid out gardens, 

 built mills, constructed tenements, traveled, lectured 

 and wrote books. 



His enthusiasm was contagious. He was never sick 

 he could not spare the time, and a doctor once said, 

 "If Robert Owen ever dies, it will be through too 

 much Robert Owen." 



Owen went over to Dublin on one of his tours, and 

 lectured on the ideal life, which to him was social- 

 ism, "each for all and all for each." Fourier, the 

 dreamer, supplied a good deal of the argument, but 

 Robert Owen did the thing. Socialism always catches 

 these two classes, doers and dreamers workers and 

 drones honest men and rogues those with a desire 

 to give and those with a lust to get. 

 Among others who heard Owen speak at Dublin was 

 the young Irish engineer, John Tyndall. 

 Tyndall was the type of man that must be common 

 before we can have socialism. There was not a lazy 

 hair in his head aye, nor a selfish one, either. He had 

 a tender heart, a receptive brain and the spirit of obe- 

 dience the spirit that gives all without counting the 

 cost the spirit that harkens to the God within. 

 And need I say that the person who gives all, gets all! 

 The economics of God are very simple: We receive 



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