Robert Owen: A Biography, Volume 2Appleton, 1907 - Socialists |
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Page 652 - itself with our mirth ; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth ; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. Robert
Page 513 - Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality ; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery, that some few may monopolise according to law. A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.
Page 481 - his convictions, or both of them united, create the motive to action called the Will, which stimulates him to act and decides his actions. " 4. That the organisation of no two human beings is ever precisely similar at birth ; nor can art subsequently form any two individuals, from infancy to maturity, to be precisely similar.
Page 582 - Society shall proceed to arrange the powers of production, distribution, education and government ; or in other words to establish a self-supporting home-colony of united interests, or to assist other Societies in establishing such Colonies.
Page 474 - bleed, No guiltless lives expire ; To help a brother in his need Is all our rites ' require. Our offering is a willing mind To comfort the distressed, In others' good our own to find, In others
Page 632 - His certainty that we might make life a Heaven, and his hallucination that we are going to do so immediately under his guidance, have caused his wisdom to be overlooked in his absurdity. ... I own I became weary of him, while ashamed, every time I witnessed his fine temper and manners, of having felt so.
Page 495 - to produce happiness will be the only religion of man ; the worship of God will consist in the practice of useful industry ; in the acquisition of knowledge ; in uniformly speaking the language of truth ; and in the expression of the joyous feelings which a life in accordance with nature and truth is sure to produce.
Page 475 - soil, Not he whose narrow heart can only shrine The land, the people that he calleth Mine ; Not he, who, to set up that land on high, Will make whole nations bleed, whole nations die ; Not he, who calling that land's might his pride, Trampleth the rights of all the earth beside. No
Page 582 - the social and domestic condition of its members, by raising a sufficient amount of capital in shares of one pound each to bring into operation the following plans and arrangements : " The establishment of a store for the sale of provisions, clothing, &c. " The building, purchasing or erecting a number of houses in which those members desiring to assist each other in improving their domestic and social
Page 487 - The primary and necessary object of all existence is to be happy. . . . But happiness cannot be obtained individually, it is useless to expect isolated happiness ; all must partake of it, or the few can never enjoy it ; man can therefore have but one real and genuine interest, which is, to make all