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WT Sharpe · 11-19-2010, 01:35 PM

.....Had it not been a law of nature, that any impression, however ridiculous and absurd, and however contrary to fact, may be given in infancy, so as to be tenaciously retained through life, men could not have passed the previous ages of the world without discovering the gross errors in which they have been trained.
..........— Robert Owen (1771-1858), English socialist, philanthropist, and social reformer. "An Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark" (1816), quoted on page 170 of Socialist Thought: a Documentary History edited by Albert Fried and Ronald Sanders (Morningside edition, 1993). A brief biography of Robert Owen begins on page 151, and the entire speech begins on page 154.

11-19-2010, 01:35 PM	#907
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....Had it not been a law of nature, that any impression, however ridiculous and absurd, and however contrary to fact, may be given in infancy, so as to be tenaciously retained through life, men could not have passed the previous ages of the world without discovering the gross errors in which they have been trained. ..........— Robert Owen (1771-1858), English socialist, philanthropist, and social reformer. "An Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark" (1816), quoted on page 170 of *Socialist Thought: a Documentary History* edited by Albert Fried and Ronald Sanders (Morningside edition, 1993). A brief biography of Robert Owen begins on page 151, and the entire speech begins on page 154.