This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...ourselves, will be rewarded by your seeing it pass into law. We conclude by expressing our desire that all cotton-spinners may enjoy the same advantages as we do; then would the masters feel the superior gratification arising from possessing the affections of a well-treated anoS happy people, and their servants that ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...ourselves, will be rewarded by your seeing it pass into law. We conclude by expressing our desire that all cotton-spinners may enjoy the same advantages as we do; then would the masters feel the superior gratification arising from possessing the affections of a well-treated anoS happy people, and their servants that pleasure which a continued kind attention on the part of the master is calculated to afford. With much respect, gentlemen, we sign ourselves in the name and by the request of the inhabitants of New Lanark." (Here follow eight signatures.) There is only one paragraph omitted from this remarkable address, but this is for no reason beyond mere condensation. In the first volume, page 348, of Allen's " Life," the substance of a long reply by Mr Allen to this address is given. It speaks of the pleasure felt by himself and the other partners in seconding and supporting their "benevolent friend, Robert Owen, in those judicious and enlightened plans" devised by him for the temporal comfort of the people, "and prosecuted with so much success." "Woeful experience in other places has shown, that to endeavour to extract the greatest quantity of profit from such a concern at the expense of the health and comfort of those employed in it, is a policy at once short-sighted and cruel, and calculated eventually to lead to results baneful to society at large and highly dangerous to the State." There is following this some three pages of the ordinary religious exhortation, very good, but not very applicable to the community to which they were addressed. The language addressed by the New Lanark workers to their employers, and by Mr Allen to them, furnishes ample proof that the relations existing between the employers and t...
Read Less
Add this copy of The Life, Times, and Labours of Robert Owen; Volume 1 to cart. $60.25, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
