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[OWEN, Robert (1771-1858)]. A New View of Society: or, Essays on the principle of the formation of the human character, and the application of this principle to practice. London: for Cadell and Davies by Richard Taylor [parts 3 and 4 printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor and described as 'not published'], 1813-1814.
4 parts in one volume, 8° (242 x 146mm). (Title and some text leaves with neat laminated repairs at inner margin, title slightly torn at upper margin and with erased shelf mark in pencil.) Early 20th-century brown buckram (erased shelf-mark at base of spine).
FIRST EDITION OF OWEN'S FIRST WORK, published when the number of 'poor and working classes' in Great Britain and Ireland was estimated 'to exceed twelve million persons, or nearly three fourths of the population,' and regarded as the first practical statement of socialist doctrine. In the four essays Owen expounded the principles on which his system of educational philanthropy was based, his fundamental point being that man's character was based upon circumstances over which he had no control, and that it could be moulded by the right physical, moral and social influences. Goldsmiths' 20854; Kress B.6195; PMM 271.
4 parts in one volume, 8° (242 x 146mm). (Title and some text leaves with neat laminated repairs at inner margin, title slightly torn at upper margin and with erased shelf mark in pencil.) Early 20th-century brown buckram (erased shelf-mark at base of spine).
FIRST EDITION OF OWEN'S FIRST WORK, published when the number of 'poor and working classes' in Great Britain and Ireland was estimated 'to exceed twelve million persons, or nearly three fourths of the population,' and regarded as the first practical statement of socialist doctrine. In the four essays Owen expounded the principles on which his system of educational philanthropy was based, his fundamental point being that man's character was based upon circumstances over which he had no control, and that it could be moulded by the right physical, moral and social influences. Goldsmiths' 20854; Kress B.6195; PMM 271.
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