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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingA AcentsAcentsa A-Acentsa Acentss Legacy Reprint Series.
Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks,
notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this
work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of
our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
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CHAPTER III WILLIAM THOMPSON, ROBERT OWEN, AND RALAHINE None of the
acknowledged leaders of the people in the 'twenties and 'thirties
of the nineteenth century showed the least democratic spirit or any
understanding of the Gaelic sense of co-operation. It is strange to
find the light and leading in those dismal decades coming from the
Irish landlord class on the one hand and from a sympathetic Briton
or two on the other. Of this light and leading, Ireland as a whole
took little notice. Yet one theorist and one practical experiment
showed the way to a supreme Labor movement, one of priceless worth
to the nation as a whole. One day in the early 'twenties, at a
meeting of a literary society in the city of Cork an individual
noted locally for his skill in debates on political economy
descanted eloquently on the blessings of the unequal distribution
of wealth. A man of large estates and possessions in the county,
who had used his senses to some purpose, repudiated the arguments
and conclusions at the time, and sethimself to prepare for delivery
before the society an address or essay dealing with the whole
question in detail. As he worked at the problem he soon outgrew the
limits of an essay for a society, and ? for the landlord was
William Thompson ? the result was the now historic volume,
published in London in 1824, bearing the long title, An Inquiry
Into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most Conducive to
Human Happiness, Applied to the newly-proposed System of the
Voluntary Equality of Wealth. The latter clause suggests his friend
Robert Owen, who had come over to preach his famous doctrines in
Dublin a couple of years before, and had interested a certain
number of the wealthy in the idea of general co-operation and
colonization. He had submitted calculations sh...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III WILLIAM THOMPSON, ROBERT OWEN, AND RALAHINE None of the
acknowledged leaders of the people in the 'twenties and 'thirties
of the nineteenth century showed the least democratic spirit or any
understanding of the Gaelic sense of co-operation. It is strange to
find the light and leading in those dismal decades coming from the
Irish landlord class on the one hand and from a sympathetic Briton
or two on the other. Of this light and leading, Ireland as a whole
took little notice. Yet one theorist and one practical experiment
showed the way to a supreme Labor movement, one of priceless worth
to the nation as a whole. One day in the early 'twenties, at a
meeting of a literary society in the city of Cork an individual
noted locally for his skill in debates on political economy
descanted eloquently on the blessings of the unequal distribution
of wealth. A man of large estates and possessions in the county,
who had used his senses to some purpose, repudiated the arguments
and conclusions at the time, and sethimself to prepare for delivery
before the society an address or essay dealing with the whole
question in detail. As he worked at the problem he soon outgrew the
limits of an essay for a society, and ? for the landlord was
William Thompson ? the result was the now historic volume,
published in London in 1824, bearing the long title, An Inquiry
Into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most Conducive to
Human Happiness, Applied to the newly-proposed System of the
Voluntary Equality of Wealth. The latter clause suggests his friend
Robert Owen, who had come over to preach his famous doctrines in
Dublin a couple of years before, and had interested a certain
number of the wealthy in the idea of general co-operation and
colonization. He had submitted calculations sh...
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