LITTLE the rest didn't think and didn't care. They were pas- 

 JOURNEYS sengers who enjoyed the cushioned seats. A few, 



while partaking of the privileges of the place, de- 

 nounced it. 



"You cannot educate people who do not want to be 

 educated," said Tyndall. The value of an education 

 lies in the struggle to get it. Do too much for people, 

 and they will do nothing for themselves. 

 Many of the students at Harmony Hall had been sent 

 there by Owen, because he, in the greatness of his 

 heart and the blindness of his zeal, thought they 

 needed education. They may have needed it, but 

 they did not want it ease was their aim. 

 The indifference and ingratitude Robert Owen met 

 with did not discourage him it only gave him an oc- 

 casional pause. He thought that the bad example of 

 English society was too close to his experiments it 

 vitiated the atmosphere. 



So he came over to America and founded the town of 

 New Harmony, Indiana. The fine solid buildings he 

 erected in Posey County, then a wilderness, are still 

 there. As for the most romantic and interesting his- 

 tory of New Harmony, Robert Owen and his social- 

 istic experiments, I must refer the gentle reader to 

 the Encyclopedia Brittanica, a work I have found 

 very useful in the course of making my original re- 

 searches jfc jfc 



After a year at Harmony Hall, Tyndall saw he would 

 have to get out or else become a victim of arrested 

 development, through too much acceptance of a strong 

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