Robert Owen: Pioneer of Social ReformsA.C. Fifield, 1908 - 67 páginas |
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44 FLEET STREET A. C. FIFIELD abolition agitation atheism authority autobiography belief Bishop of Exeter Bishops as Legislators Britain capital capitalist Chartists Christianity Church co-operative societies co-operators common cotton spinner cotton spinning creed criminal dancing divorce Duke of Kent E. H. Crosby economic EDWARD CARPENTER England Erewhon established evil Fabian Society Factory Acts factory reform favour formation of character Harmony human race industrial insistence irrational JOSEPH CLAYTON LABADIE COLLECTION labour Lanark land later learnt London Lord machinery mankind marriage ment military drill minds misery Moral World National nature nett postage Orbiston Owen's Socialism Owenite Parliament peace PIONEER OF SOCIAL political post-free postage id poverty propaganda Public Opinion Queenwood religious Robert Owen sexes SHAW SIDNEY WEBB social democracy Social Democratic Federation Socialist teaching spirits teachers things tion to-day TOLSTOY trade unionists trade unions truth unions and co-operative wealth women workmen Wrappers
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Página 14 - Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened, may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by the application of proper means; which means are to a great extent at the command and under the control of those who have influence in the affairs of men.
Página 59 - It was the great counter-principle to asceticism in life and morals, to formalism in art, to absolutism in the social ordering, to obscurantism in thought. Every social improvement since has been the outcome of that doctrine in one form or another. The conviction that the character and lot of man are indefinitely modifiable for good, was the indispensable antecedent to any general and energetic endeavour to modify the conditions that surround him. The omnipotence of early instruction, of laws, of...
Página 24 - I do, from long experience hoth here and in England, the miseries which this trade, as it is now conducted, inflicts on those to whom it gives employment, I do not hesitate to say, — perish the cotton trade, perish even the political superiority of our country, (if it depends on the cotton trade,) rather than they shall be...
Página 21 - The general diffusion of manufactures throughout a country generates a new character in its inhabitants ; and as this character is formed upon a principle quite unfavourable to individual or general happiness, it will produce the most lamentable and permanent evils, unless its tendency be counteracted by legislative interference and direction.
Página 23 - ... those receptacles, in too many instances, for living human skeletons, almost disrobed of intellect, where, as the business is often now conducted, they linger out a few years of miserable existence, acquiring every bad habit which they may disseminate throughout society.
Página 3 - PEDDIR. 3. Socialism and Individualism. By SIDNEY WEBB, SIDNEY BALL, BERNARD SHAW, and SIR OLIVER LODGE. 4. The Basis and Policy of Socialism. By SIDNEY WEBB, and the FABIAN SOCIETY. " For inquirers anxious to know about Socialism, and to discover its best meanings, there are no writings better suited for that purpose. They are quiet, accurate, convincing expositions of Socialism in its varied aspects. They stand easily first among Socialist literature.
Página 60 - How the devil, Owen, could you say what " you did yesterday at your public meeting ! If any of " us " (meaning the then so-called Liberal party in the House of Commons) " had said half as much, we should " have been burned alive, — and here are you quietly " walking as if nothing had occurred...
Página 20 - It appears that the children and others who work in the large cotton factories, are peculiarly disposed to be affected by the contagion of fever, and that when such infection is received, it is rapidly propagated, not only amongst those who are crowded together in the same apartments, but in the families and neighbourhoods to which they belong.
Página 20 - ... active exercises which nature points out as essential in childhood and youth, to invigorate the system, and to fit our species for the employments and for the duties of manhood.
Página 66 - The Future of the Human Race, or a great, glorious and peaceful Revolution, near at hand, to be effected through the agency of departed spirits of good and superior men and women (1853) ; The New Existence of Man upon Earth, Parts i.-viii., 1854-55.