" he candidly replied, "Not one."
When Emerson asked this man, "How many men possessed of your views, who will remain after you, are going to put them in practice?" he candidly replied, "Not one." Stockholders in his new firm included the Quaker William Allen and Jeremy Bentham. In the publication A New View of Society he set forth the principles of his educational philanthropy system. He recommended that villages of "unity and cooperation" be established for the unemployed throughout Wales and Britain. Attempting to transplant his success to America, his Indiana community lost him 80% of his fortune and he withdrew. FTP, who was this founder of the utopian settlements of New Harmony and New Lanark?
When Emerson asked this man, "How many men possessed of your views, who will remain after you, are going to put them in practice?
Robert Dale Owen