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To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

— Robert Owen The Social System (1826)

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To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

The Book of the New Moral World then he died (1836)

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

The Book of the New Moral World then he died (1836)

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