ABSTRACT
The aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and the wish to secure political and economic peace in that context greatly informed the maturation of Owen’s thought in the years 1815-1820. Upon his arrival, Robert Owen handed out a Memorial outlining his system to various diplomatic representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia and France. The goal was to create perpetual peace through the introduction of his co-operative economic system. That he has presented the said Memorial to many of the European governments; and will take the earliest opportunity to lay it before the remaining governments of Europe, and before the states of America. The new manufacturing system, had then attained that point which gave the highest value to manual labour, compared with the price of the necessaries and comforts of life, which it was calculated to afford; and it had not yet introduced the demoralizing effects which soon afterwards began to emanate from it.
