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Rh Communists established by Robert Owen and others, in Broughton, a little village twenty miles north of the New Forest. Of this Community, which Margaret Reynolds joined, and where she became personally acquainted with many of the leading English Freethinkers, Conway remarks as follows:

"The English Communists, the first considerable body in England who ever professed Materialism, and the only party, perhaps, that never possessed it, made their first practical settlement in Hampshire, at a time when society was hard and cold, taxation heavy, the people ignorant, and workingmen homeless. Robert Owen—the first to bring a breath of courage upon those evil days with which the present generation opened—and his disciples sect up a propagandism, and subscribed money to create that situation in which it should be impossible for men to be depraved or poor. Looking around on the besotted and criminal, Owen said, 'Give me a tiger and I will educate it!' In that faith he called around