The Book of the New Moral World Author:Robert Owen Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BOOK THE NEW MORAL WORLD. CHAPTER I. The Five Fundamental Facta; and Twenty Facts and Laws of Human Nature on which the Rational System is founded. ... more » 1. Man is a compound being, whose character is formed of his constitution or organization at birth, and of the effects of external circumstances acting upon that organization, which effects continue to operate upon, and to influence him from birth to death. 2. Man is compelled by his original constitution to receive his feelings and his conviction! independently of his will. 3. Rk fi'diiif/a or his convictions, or both of them united, create the motive to action called the mill, which stimulates him to act, and de- cides his actions. 4. The organization of no two human beings is ever precisely similar at birth ; nor can art subsequently form any two individuals, from infancy to maturity, to be the same. 5. Nevertheless, the constitution of every infant, except in case of organic disease, is capable of being formed or matured, either into a verg inferior or a verg superior being, according to the qualities of the external circumstances allowed to influence that constitution from birth. The Constitution and Laws of Human Nature, or Moral Science of Man. 1. Human nature in the aggregate is a compound, consisting of animal propensities, intellectual faculties, and moral qualities. 2. These propensities, faculties, and qualities are united in different proportions in each individual. 3. The different proportions of the same general propensities, faculties, and qualities, constitute the sole difference by which one individual is distinguished from another. 1-. This difference in each is made by a power unknown to the in. dividual, without his knowledge or consent. 5. Each individual comes into ...« less