The Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, Without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery (Volume 1-2); An Address to All Intelligent Men. in Two Parts (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1833. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... The first part explains the general ideas on the subject of the paradise to be created for all men. Thig second part is to point out the gradual proceedings for the introduction of those mean3 into our country. I shall here begin with the most simple, and the least expensive experiment, and then pursue, step by step, the most natural course to be taken in this country, until all the ultimate objects of the paradise be attained. No country in the world is evidently better situated and constituted for the application of the means in contemplation, without the least detrimental consequences to any person, than the United States. Free from the blast of arbitrary despotism, with an uncultivated territory sufficient for the reception of more than one hundred millions of men, which might revel here in superabundance of all necessaries, comforts, and luxuries of life, the United States might easily accelerate their march towards their supreme power and influence over the whole world, by inducing emigrants from Europe, to settle in our extensive wildernesses in the west, with the application of the proposed means. It would require from Congress nothing more than to grant tracts of land for settlements on reasonable terms with a credit for a few years. The pay for such land 1 might be discharged by extensive improvements for the benefit of the nation, such as rail roads, canals, draining of swamps, dams along rivers against noxious inundations, establishments for new settlers and travellers, vehicles for transporting men and things of any bulk and weight over land and water, to the immense benefit of the community at large, which the new means afford. The first society for the application of some, or all the proposed means, after having made some small establishment for t...