Robert Owen's New View On Society

Robert Owen was born in a small market town in Montgomeryshire, Mid Wales, in 1771. His father was a saddler and ironmonger and his mother came from a prosperous farmer family. Owens received almost all his school education in the town of his mother's family, which ended when he was ten. In 1787, he moved and settled in London. He was heavily into textiles, involved in several mills. His entrepreneurial spirit, managerial skill and progressive moral views were emerging by the early 1790s. In 1793, he became a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, where the ideas of reformers and philosophers of the Enlightenment were discussed. He was also a committee member of the Manchester Board of Health, commissioned to
What he observed appalled him. He began to form notions and ideas about man's character. He started to experiment and enact policies in his mill. He soon earned the confidence of his workers and his mills proved to be successful, however, his partners were not happy with the cost of Owen's schemes. In 1813, Owens arranged to buy the New Lanark mill from his partners and allowed to pursue his philanthropic.

That same year, Owen embarked on writing a series of essays on the conditions he observed in his mill and with his workers the first was "A New View on Society." He established interestingly unique theories about a man's character.

In "A New View of Society" Owens suggests that society forms each person's individual character. From the earliest of civilizations, man's character and moral being were formed for him by erroneous principles and goes on to say it is the "true sole origin of evil." His first four paragraphs suggest that man is unable to establish the ability to generate free will and thought. In paragraph three, Owen tells us that this error can not much longer exist, and that man can or could ever form his own