These facts, which, after all, are only specimens of what might be adduced, awful as they are, cannot be wondered at; nor will the reading of them occasion any surprise, when it is known that the following sentiments are taught and inculcated by the advocates of these principles:—A Mr. — on one occasion publicly declared, and argued according to one of the fundamental principles of this system, that men are not to be held accountable for what they are. He said, “Each nation has some particular character of its own. Some nations think murder right; others are cannibals; and they cannot help either their belief or their practice. . . . And we should not punish men for the want of virtue, or the commission of vice, but we should teach them better.” A socialist lecturer expressed his ideas of God in the following words:—“He is omnipresent, he is all goodness, he is all wisdom, he is present in you, he is present in me, he is present in the murderer, he is present in hell.” And the conclusion which he wished to draw was, that as God is thus present everywhere, therefore, he is the author of the crime of the murderer!! I asked him, “Was God all goodness when he was thus present in the murderer?” Or, in other words, Was murder goodness? These, and similarly awful sentiments, Mr. Owen’s followers are seeking to extend with the greatest diligence, and that too, even among the young. Nor have they been unsuccessful. The effects which already begin to appear are highly detrimental. In one instance, the son of a professor of socialism, who goes to school to a Christian, was one morning too late, and told his master that he could not help being too late, for he was the creature of circumstances over which he had no control; when his master very properly replied, then he would apply a moral motive of sufficient power to induce him to be in time, and so gave him a good beating. A sabbath-school teacher, in a neighbourhood where these principles have extensively spread, bears testimony that, “through the influence of socialism the boys have become so unmanageable that the teachers do not know what to do: to turn them out of the school appears to be to doom them to destruction: and to keep them in is, almost to a certainty, to corrupt the views and morals of the rest of the children.” A man named —, of —, who was once a preacher, but is now a warm advocate of socialism, has repeatedly confessed that he has no peace in his own mind.