Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
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







