If anyone did not think in accordance with these he soon discovered this fact for himself.

Owen saw that in the world a small class of people were possessed of a great abundance and superfluity of the things that are produced by work.

He saw also that a very great number--in fact the majority of the people--lived on the verge of want; and that a smaller but still very large number lived lives of semi-starvation from the cradle to the grave; while a yet smaller but still very great number actually died of hunger, or, maddened by privation, killed themselves and their children in order to put a period to their misery.

And strangest of all--in his opinion--he saw that people who enjoyed abundance of the things that are made by work, were the people who did Nothing: and that the others, who lived in want or died of hunger, were the people who worked.

And seeing all this he thought that it was wrong, that the system that produced such results was rotten and should be altered.