The Unity of Western Civilization
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Owen's labours at home have, naturally enough, bulked so large in the estimation of historians and publicists in their writings on this subject, that the continental side of his activities has received com- X INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION 227 paratively little attention at their hands. Nevertheless his correspondence with European governments on the abuses and needs of industrialism as it existed in the early years of the nineteenth century are among the most re- markable he ever wrote ; and his appea...l to the Congress of the Holy Alliance in 1818 shows how thoroughly pre- pared he was to treat national reform as the first step to a system which should be international. Had the states- men of his time, too busy in their making and unmaking of kingdoms to heed his arguments and appeals, turned their attention from those high matters (in which, after all, their achievement was for the most part neither brilliant nor beneficial) to the homelier details of their people's lives, social progress would have been indefinitely hastened, and we might have been spared the sorry spectacle of one industrial nation after another committing the blunders and painfully learning the lesson of its predecessors at the cost of much avoidable human suffering.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Owen's labours at home have, naturally enough, bulked so large in the estimation of historians and publicists in their writings on this subject, that the continental side of his activities has received com- X INDUSTRIAL LEGISLATION 227 paratively little attention at their hands. Nevertheless his correspondence with European governments on the abuses and needs of industrialism as it existed in the early years of the nineteenth century are among the most re- markable he ever wrote ; and his appea...l to the Congress of the Holy Alliance in 1818 shows how thoroughly pre- pared he was to treat national reform as the first step to a system which should be international. Had the states- men of his time, too busy in their making and unmaking of kingdoms to heed his arguments and appeals, turned their attention from those high matters (in which, after all, their achievement was for the most part neither brilliant nor beneficial) to the homelier details of their people's lives, social progress would have been indefinitely hastened, and we might have been spared the sorry spectacle of one industrial nation after another committing the blunders and painfully learning the lesson of its predecessors at the cost of much avoidable human suffering.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Marvin Francis Sydney to read onlineMoreLess
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