BY THE REV. JOSEPH MATHER. THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY, INSTITUTED 1799. 56, PATERNOSTER ROW, AND 65, ST.  PAULS CHURCHYARD. Mr. Owen professes to be seeking the happiness of his species: he imagines he has discovered the specific, which, if believed and applied, will produce it; and he is using all the means in his power to convince the world that such is the fact, and to induce the men of it to receive, and follow his prescriptions. We must confess that we are not a little startled at the mean

Since writing the preceding pages, I have had an opportunity of both seeing and hearing of the effects of the system, the principles of which I have endeavoured to expose: and as the fruits of a tree are not only of great service in determining the character of the tree which bears them, but are the best test by which that character may be known, it may be of use to the cause of truth, and may tend more effectually than any other means, to explain and expose what Robert Owen’s Socialism is, to s