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their predecessors. They say of my stove number one on the 

 catalogue. " This stove is judged to be the most useful for the 

 great mass of the people whose means ■will not enable them to ob- 

 tain No. 358." 



With great respect. 



Yours, 



JORDAN L. MOTT. 



JVew-York, JVov. 26, 1851. 



Ghjn. a. Chandler, 



Cor. Sec. American Institute^ Jfew-Ycrk, 

 Dear Sir — In submitting to your consideration the following 

 tacts and theories which as a member of the press have passed 

 under my revision, it may be necessary to state my reasons for 

 laying the same before you. 



Although I am no socialist, except as regards Literature and 

 the Arts and Sciences — in which I should rejoice to see every 

 civilized nation in existence closely united in the fraternizing 

 bonds of interchange and the communion of knowledge — the com- 

 mon capital of all who desire an interest in the same — I presume 

 to consider that no man has a moral right to keep to himself the 

 knowledge which he may have acquired ; the thoughts and ideas 

 produced by study, or resulting from observation and experience. 

 In order, however, that these thoughts may be rendered availa- 

 ble to the human family at large, it is necessary that they should 

 be submitted to analysis, and the best of all analyses is the con- 

 tinuous and successive experiments of the dilferent laborers in 

 science and the comparison of their various processes through the 

 medium of friendly interchange and communication. This is 

 assuredly a desideratum for all who are engaged in the labors of 

 art, science or literature ; and it should be the object of every 

 institution founded on the broad and general principle for ren- 

 dering men wiser and consequently happier, to offer to every 

 thinking man the readiest medium for this communication with 

 his fellow laborers in scientific inquiry. 



I may be permitted here, to advert to the noble example af- 

 forded by the New-York American Institute, which has ever 



