Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Robert Dale Owen
Born: November 7, 1801
Died: June 24, 1877 (aged 75)
Bio: Robert Dale Owen was a Scottish-born American social reformer who was a longtime exponent in the United States of the socialist doctrines of his father, Robert Owen, as well as a politician in the Democratic Party.
Known for:
- Twenty-seven years of autobiography
- Hints on public architecture
- Owen's moral physiology
- Beyond The Breakers