Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

"As these townships" (as he also called them) "should increase in number unions of them federatively united shall be formed in circles of tens hundreds and thousands" till they should embrace the whole world in a common interest. They are embodied in his first work A New View of Society or Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character the first of four essays appearing in 1813.

Third support for the putting-out system instead of the factory system[citation needed]. Owen's philosophy was based on three intellectual pillars: First no one was responsible for his will and his own actions because his whole character is formed independently of himself; people are products of their heredity and environment hence his support for education and labour reform.