Excerpt from The New World
My "Paradise," &c. surveys the great materials of the world, and shows the powers and means, in general, to make a paradise, not of superstitious and childish fancy, but of intelligence, and all the enjoyments that the present world affords to man, as far as the knowledge of the present age teaches, and as the most informed and enlightened men of the present day would wish.
The present book, as a sequel of my "Paradise," gives the details of a mechanical system, actuated by powers demonstrated in that book, to produce a terrestrial paradise of abundance without labour of either man or beast.
I prove here minutely what I have proved in general in my "Paradise," by experience known to every one.
To accommodate the dullest and laziest mind, 1 accompany this with plates of the machinery, of which every part is tested by practice, and give all the explanations and calculations required; and tender, in addition, models for inspection of the same system.
I offer contracts for the execution of the whole or any part thereof, on easy terms, say ten percent, of the profit, or some equivalent.
The things I offer here to you, are, in short, these, viz.
Powers that are much stronger than all the men and beasts together you are able to muster, and as strong as you wish them, most obedient to your will, imperishable, indefatigable, working for you day and night, for ever, without food or wages, and which, with a few simple tools, cultivate all your land, build your houses, make all your desirable canals and roads, and carry you and your things from place to place as quickly as you please, and ultimately change your country - your unproductive woods and prairies, your dismal swamps and ponds, your mountains and vallies, and your poorly cultivated farms - into a general paradise.
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