unnatural colour flushed the think cheeks.

There was a certain amount of justification for the attitude of his
fellow workmen, for Owen held the most unusual and unorthodox opinions
on the subjects mentioned.

The affairs of the world are ordered in accordance with orthodox
opinions. 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. And he had sought out and
eagerly read the writings of those who thought they knew how it might
be done.

It was because he was in the habit of speaking of these subjects that
his fellow workmen came to the conclusion that there was probably
something wrong with his mind.

When all the members of the syndicate had handed over their