Lynchburg Virginian

MR. OWEN.
(Letter from the London Times)

Sir—I authorize you to state that the paragraph which appeared in the Times and some other London papers, a few days since, purporting to give a detail of my intended proceedings and which was copied from the Scotsman newspaper, published in Edinburgh, was given to the public without my knowledge, and that it is incorrect in some important particulars. The object of the meeting between the clergy and myself, in April next, in the city of Cincinnati, State of Ohio, in the United States is not to discuss the truth or falsehood of the Christian Religion, as stated in the Scotsman, but to ascertain the errors, in all religions, which prevent them from being efficacious in practice, and to bring out all that is really valuable in each, leaving out their errors, and thus to form from them collectively a religion wholly true and consistent, that it may become universal, and be acted upon conscientiously by all.

Neither is it my intention to remove finally from this country, as stated in the Scotsman. On the contrary, I have purposely made arrangements to be, without inconvenience, in any part of the world in which my earnest endeavors to ameliorate the present condition of society shall appear to be the most useful, as I do not entertain in the least doubt of an entire change being near at hand, in the commercial, political and religious polity of all nations. The very small amount of benefit that is effected for the great mass of mankind, with the extraordinary powers for ensuring general prosperity, now possessed by Society, united with the daily growing intelligence of the population in civilized countries, render, I think this change not only unavoidable, but not very distant.

ROBERT OWEN.