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establish perpetual Laws, neither restraining 
Marriage nor Industry, and proscribing oniv 
Quarrels, Intemperance and all Vices ; neither 
dictating Tenets nor Dogmas, but asking Mutual 
Lave and Concord, from which naturally flow 
Happiness, Prosperity and Enjoyments of all 
kinds — Inviting all the good, the poor, the 
wretched,- the unhappy of this World (of which 
millions exist) to come and dwell in peace in 
this Evangelic Asylum ; their labor and indus- 
try would amply support them, since they only 
ask and require a peaceful gratuitous asylum, 
instead of the heavy evils, rents, profits, taxes, 
&c. to be paid in the corrupt Social State. 
35, If only 100 families were collected, they 
would increase ten-fold in a few years ; out of 
their Savings they could buy or procure other 
Lands, establish Colonies, multiply beyond be- 
lief, and form innumerable Clusters of happy 
Beings, ready for any further improvement. 
The System of families ought not to be broken, 
since fathers and mothers are the natural heads 
and patriarchs of their offspring: the patriarchal 
government could be restored by giving pro 
ponderance to fathers and mothers of families, 
according to the size of their families. Industry 
and Knowledge ought also to be promoted by 
rewarding each according to their manual and 
mental labors. 
36, As if to shame us, the Social plan of Owen 
and others, has lately been promulgated ; altho’ 
revived from the dreams of Plato, or the Cre- 
tan Laws, or the Pythagorean Schools, or the 
Hindu and Peruvian Communities ; nay pub- 
lished 100 years ago in France. The Socialists 
or Owenists now claiming to be reformers also, 
(altho’ discarding Religion and Moral principles 
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