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The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; — that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders.

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

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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.

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

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