ould reach the age of majority.

"The _aim_ was, on the one hand, to relieve marriage of its
burdens, and to remove the principal reasons for making it
_indissoluble_; and, on the other hand, to provide for bringing
up all children, in a rational manner, to be reasonable men and
women, that is, _free from superstition, free from all belief
in God and immortality_, free from all regard for the
invisible, and make them look _upon this life_ as _their only
life_, this earth as their only home, and _the promotion of
their earthly interests and enjoyments as their only end_. The
three great enemies to earthly happiness were held to be
religion, marriage, or family and private property. Once get
rid of these three institutions, and we may hope soon to
realize our earthly paradise. For religion is to be substituted
science, that is, science of the world, of the five senses
only; for private property, a community of goods; and for
private families, a community of wives.

"Fanny Wright and her school saw clearly that their principles
could not be carried into practice in the present state of
society. So they proposed them to be adopted only by a future
generation, trained and prepared in a system of schools founded
and sustained by the Public. They placed their dependence on
education in a system of _Public Schools_, managed after a plan
of William Phiquepal, a Frenchman, and subsequently the husband
of Fanny Wright.

"In order to get their system of schools adopted, they proposed
to organize the whole Union, secretly, very much on the plan of
the Carbonari of Europe. The members of this secret society
were to avail themselves of all the means in their power, each
in his own locality, to form public opinion in favor of
education by the State at the public expense, and to get such
men elected to the Legislatures as would be likely to favor
their purposes. This secret organization commenced in the State
of New York, and was to extend over the whole Union. Mr. O. A.
Brownson was one of the agents for organizing the State of New
York. He, however, became tired of the work, and abandoned it
after a few months."

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"The attention of so-called philanthropic men in all parts of
the country, was directed