ABSTRACT
In 1813, Mr. Owen was forty-two years old, he published his New View of Society,* dedicated to Mr. Wilberforce. The elder children to assist in gardening and manufacturing, according to their strength. The men to be employed, all of them, in agriculture, and also in manufactures, or some other occupation, for the benefit of the establishment. The 1000 in habitants of Thousand Acre Island, thus beginning to increase, without the power of increasing the produce of the island, all beyond 1000 in number must quit the island, and go and settle elsewhere; or if they prefer staying in their native land, Thousand Acre Island must import corn and provisions sufficient for the consumption of its surplus population.
