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249being quite passive is altogether quite active, and from that comes all morality,all character of humans while formed by man and attributing it to externalcircumstances, we are obliged to attribute it also and we attribute it to man,believing that there is no relative good or relative evil from the infinite point ofview; we are at the finite point of view more or less good or bad what is moreor less good and bad, and we love more what is more lovable, less what is lesslovable and what we wish spontaneously we are obliged to will necessarily andviceversa, from the religious point of view where we are, the only true, usefuland good point of view there is a perfect harmony between spontaneity andnecessity and neither one nor the other can be denied. And if it is thus, there ismerit and demerit, inequality of the fact and of the law, and the hierarchy (Mr.Owen is convinced of the need of this for the other reasons, all practical), andfrom that we have attribution according to capacity and reward according towork.2. that industrial organisation, that is to say, the replacement ofcompetition of individual antagonism by cooperation, by the union of efforts(interests) is not possible without intellectual or scientific organisation, andboth can’t be produced without being animated by a union of sympathies,desires, without moral organisation.3. the moral and material organisation of society is always and will bein the future religious, this is why our views on the development of humanityby setting forth the character of the present and rehabilitating the past andforeseeing the future explain the moral and material organisation.4. The base, the goal and principle of this organization in future will beprogress, progress being realized in constant improvement and successiveamelioration of the condition of the most numerous and poorest class in allrespect in its life, which are threefold: moral, intellectual and material(physique) and they express themselves through [...] science andindustrialization. However, because the unique, unchangeable and eternal lawof Nature that contains them and from which the other things that govern