Owenism is the utopian socialism utopian socialist philosophy of 19th century social reformer Robert Owen and his followers and successors, who are known as Owenites . With its origins in the Industrial Revolution , Owenism aimed for radical reform of society and is considered a forerunner of the cooperative movement . ref name Garrett Ronald George Garrett 1972 , Co operation and the Owenite socialist communities in Britain, 1825 45 , Manchester University Press ND, ISBN 0719005019 ref The Owenite movement undertook several experiments in establishment of utopian community utopian communities organized according to communitarian and cooperative principles. ref name Garrett One of the best known of these efforts, which were largely unsuccessful, was the project at New Harmony, Indiana , which started in 1825 and was abandoned by 1829. See also Cooperative George Mudie Owenite London Working Men s Association New Lanark Spa Fields References reflist Co operatives Category Social philosophy Category Utopian socialism Philosophy stub fr Owenisme ko ... more details
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atheism2 William Chilton 1815 28 May 1855 , was a printer, Owenism Owenite Socialist , evolutionist, and co founder with Charles Southwell of The Oracle of Reason , which claimed to be the world s first avowedly atheism atheist journal. Life Born in Bristol , the son of William and Mary Ann Chilton, Chilton s first occupation was that of bricklayer, before becoming a compositing compositor and Publisher s reader reader for the local Bristol Mercury . ref Royle 1974, p.308 http books.google.co.uk books?id XgkNAQAAIAAJ&lpg PP1&dq victorian 20infidels&lr &pg PA308 . Desmond 1987, p.85 describes the Bristol Mercury as a liberal daily . ref . He remained with the Bristol Mercury until his death, and according to Adrian Desmond 2004 his campaigning and propagandist activities had to be squeezed around his 10 hour working day as a compositor. He would camp in his works for weeks on end... On 26 September 1843, Chilton married Mary Ann Morris. They had two daughters Kate born in 1846 , and Lucy born in 1848 . Chilton died at the young age of forty ref Desmond 2004 , says that he probably died of an arterial aneurysm . ref , and was buried in Bristol on 2 June 1855. The Oracle of Reason The Oracle of Reason was founded by Chilton, Charles Southwell and John Field in 1841 . It lasted until 1843. It was an aggressive and deliberately confrontational journal from the outset ref Desmond 1987, p.85 ref . Southwell, as editor, was imprisoned for twelve months after just a handful of issues, and was replaced by George Holyoake George Jacob Holyoake . When Holyoake was gaoled in August 1842, Thomas Paterson took over. William Chilton became editor in June 1843 after Thomas Paterson s arrest. Although considered to be the firmest atheist of the group, Chilton was a more cautious editor and he was never prosecuted. After the closure of the Oracle , Chilton joined Holyoake at Holyoake s The Movement , a weekly journal which was much more moderate in approach than the Oracle . According ... more details
Infobox NRHP name James Elliott Farm nrhp type image James Elliott Farmhouse.jpg caption Front of the farmhouse location 1221 Church St. Indiana State Road 66 State Road 66 at New Harmony, Indiana New Harmony , Indiana ref name interim lat degrees 38 lat minutes 7 lat seconds 44 lat direction N long degrees 87 long minutes 55 long seconds 23 long direction W coord display inline,title locmapin Indiana architect James Elliott architecture Greek Revival architecture Greek Revival added December 23, 2003 area convert 15 acre governing body Private refnum 03001312 ref name nris NRISref version 2010a ref The James Elliott Farm is a historic Homestead buildings farmstead located on the edge of the town of New Harmony, Indiana New Harmony in Posey County, Indiana Posey County , Indiana , United States . The farm is composed of the farmhouse and seven outbuildings, ref name nris including corn crib s, a barn , a shed , a silo , and a milkhouse. ref name interim Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. Posey County Interim Report . Indianapolis Indiana Department of Natural Resources , 2004 08, 72. ref The farm centers around the farmhouse, which was built in the Greek Revival architecture Greek Revival style in 1826 by English immigrant James Elliott even before Elliott joined the commune, the property had been associated with the followers of Robert Owen the land had previously supported an offshoot of the main community, which its residents called Feiba Peveli. Elliott had settled in the vicinity as part of the Owenism Owenist commune that lived at New Harmony at that time besides farming, Elliott established himself as the community s brewing brewer . ref name interim Among the distinctive architectural elements of the farmhouse are its two large chimneys, its symmetrical five bay architecture bay facade, and a porch with a gable d Greek Revival pediment . The front door sits at the middle of the first floor facade, with two windows on each side the second floor ... more details
for his father Edward Baines 1774 1848 Infobox Person name Sir Edward Baines image Edward Baines 1840.jpg image size 240px caption in 1840 in the crowd at the conference of the Anti Slavery Society birth name birth date 1800 birth place death date 1890 death place death cause resting place resting place coordinates residence nationality other names known for Abolitionism education employer occupation Politician title term predecessor successor party boards spouse children parents relatives religion signature website footnotes Sir Edward Baines , also known as Edward Baines junior 28 May 1800, Leeds 1890 was a nonconformist England English newspaper editor and Member of Parliament. Biography Edward Baines, of St Ann s Hill, Leeds , was the second son and biographer of Edward Baines 1774 1848 Edward Baines 1774 1848 , proprietor of the Leeds Mercury and MP for Leeds in the 1830s, and his wife Charlotte Talbot. His elder brother, Matthew Talbot Baines , was also a politician. Edward Baines junior was educated at a Leeds private school and then at the nonconformist grammar school New College, Manchester . From 1815 he worked as journalist and editor of the Leeds Mercury , becoming a partner in 1827 . He married Martha Blackburn in 1829. He became editor and, after his father s death, proprietor of the Leeds Mercury . Baines helped to found the Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society . He was also a prominent advocate of working class adult education, founding Yorkshire Mechanics Institutes in imitation of George Birkbeck s London mechanics institute. An educational voluntarist, he opposed state sponsored education until the 1860s. A political Liberal, he supported the 1832 Reform Act and the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 1834 new poor laws . His History of the Cotton Manufacture 1835 was written in opposition to the corn laws , and he also published criticisms of Owenism . In 1840 he attended the World s Anti Slavery convention where he was captured in a group painting. ... more details
Jeanne Desir e V ret Gay 4 April 1810 c. 1891 was a French people French socialist feminist . Born in Paris , as Desir e V ret , she worked as a seamstress before in 1831 joining the followers of utopian socialist Henri de Saint Simon . The following year, with Marie Reine Guindorff, she founded the Tribune des femmes , in reaction to the exclusion of women from decision making among the Saint Simonites. ref name revolution Harriet Branson Applewhite and Darline Gay Levy, Women and Politics in the Age of the Democratic Revolution ref ref name beecher Jonathan Beecher, http charlesfourier.fr article pdf.php3?id article 79 D sir e V ret, ou le pass retrouv Amour, m moire, socialisme , Cahiers Charles Fourier fr icon ref She vowed to pursue the liberty of women above all other concerns. ref name ohiou http www.ohiou.edu Chastain dh gay.htm Desir e Gay , Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions ref In 1833, Gay moved to work in England. While there, she made contact with the supporters of socialist Robert Owen , including Jules Gay ref name revolution and Anna Doyle Wheeler . ref Dolores Dooley, Equlity in Community , pp. 96 99, Cork University Press, 1996 ref During this period, she acted as an intermediary between the Owenites, the Saint Simonites and Charles Fourier . ref H. Desroche, Images and Echoes of Owenism in Nineteenth century France , in Robert Owen, Prophet of the Poor ref She also had a brief affair with Victor Considerant , ref Jean Claude Dubos, http charlesfourier.fr article pdf.php3?id article 79 http charlesfourier.fr article.php3?id article 65 RIOT SARCEY Mich le La D mocratie l preuve des femmes. Trois figures critiques du pouvoir, 1830 1848 , Cahiers Charles Fourier fr icon ref which had ended by 1837, when she married Gay, thereafter usually being known as Desir e Gay . ref name beecher In 1840, the Gays tried to found a school in Ch tillon sous Bagneux which aimed to educate children from birth, but this failed, probably due to lack of capital. Afte ... more details
Infobox nrhp name Forestville Commonwealth nrhp type hd image caption nearest city Coxsackie town , New York Earlton, New York locmapin New York built 1826 architect architecture added November 20, 1974 area convert 200 acre governing body Private refnum 74001242 ref name nris NRISref 2009a ref Forestville Commonwealth is an archaeological site and national Historic district United States historic district located at Coxsackie town , New York Earlton in Greene County, New York . The district contains seven contributing sites. It represents the remains of a Utopia utopian community built in 1826 1827 as one of three Owenism Owenite experiments in New York State . ref name nrhpinv ny cite web url http www.oprhp.state.ny.us hpimaging hp view.asp?GroupView 2566 title National Register of Historic Places Registration Forestville Commonwealth date March 1974 accessdate 2009 06 14 author Lenore M. Rennenkampf publisher New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation See also cite web url http www.oprhp.state.ny.us hpimaging hp view.asp?GroupView 2564 title Accompanying four photos ref It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. ref name nris The Forestville Commonwealth The following is a history of the Forestville Community as reported in the History of Greene County, New York with Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men, published in 1884 One of the most interesting episodes in the history of the western part of this town was the community established there about 60 years ago. In 1824, Robert Owen, an English socialist, came to this country, preaching the doctrine of communism, which name had then the baleful significance it has at the present time. It was his favorite theory that the welfare and happiness of mankind could be increased by unity in communities in which all property should be held in common, and it was claimed that this, with associated labor, would greatly enhance the welfare of mankind. Through the influence ... more details
Infobox person name George Jacob Holyoake image Holyoake2.JPG image size 200px caption birth date Birth date 1817 4 13 df yes birth place Birmingham , England death date Death date and age 1906 1 27 1817 4 13 df yes death place Brighton , England occupation Secularist co operator spouse parents children George Jacob Holyoake 13 April 1817 22 January 1906 , England English secularism secularist and worker cooperative co operator , was born in Birmingham , England . He coined the term secularism in 1851 ref Holyoake, G.J. 1896 . Origin and Nature of Secularism , London Watts & Co., p.50. ref and the term jingoism in 1878. ref Feldman, Noah 2005 . Divided by God. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pg. 113 ref Owenism Holyoake was for a brief time a lecturer at the Birmingham Mechanics Institute, later becoming an Robert Owen Owenite lecturer. Holyoake joined Charles Southwell in dissenting from the official policy of Owenism that lecturers should take a religious oath, to enable them to take collections on Sundays. Southwell had founded the atheist The Oracle of Reason Oracle of Reason , and was soon imprisoned because of its contents. Holyoake took over as editor, having moved to an atheism atheist position as a result of his experiences. Holyoake was influenced by the French philosopher of science , Auguste Comte , notable in the discipline of sociology and famous for the doctrine of positivism . Comte, like John Stuart Mill , had himself attempted to establish a secular religion of humanity to fulfil the cohesive structural functionalism function of traditional religion. Holyoake was an acquaintance of Harriet Martineau , the English translator of various works by Comte and perhaps the first female sociologist. She wrote to him excitedly upon reviewing Charles Darwin Darwin s On the Origin of Species in 1859. Prosecution In 1842, Holyoake became the last person convicted for Blasphemy law in the United Kingdom blasphemy in a public lecture, held in April 1842 at the Chelten ... more details
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Samuel Birley Rowbotham 1816 1884 was an English inventor and writer who wrote Zetetic Astronomy Earth Not a Globe under the pseudonym Parallax . His work was based on his decade long studies of the earth and was originally published as a 16 page pamphlet 1849 , which he later expanded into a 430 page book 1881 . According to Rowbotham s method, which he called Zetetic Astronomy , the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. Life Rowbotham started out as an organiser of an Owenism Owenite commune in the Fens , where he first observed the strange phenomenon on the Bedford level that led to his theories about the earth. Following allegations of sexual misconduct he reinvented himself as a itinerant lecturer under the name Parallax . He took a little time to learn his trade, running away from a lecture in Blackburn, Lancashire Blackburn when he couldn t explain why the hulls of ships disappeared before their masts when sailing out to sea. ref name demorgan cite book title A Budget of Paradoxes volume II last de Morgan first Augustus year 1872 chapter Zetetic Astronomy url http www.gutenberg.org files 26408 26408 h 26408 h.htm ref However, as he persisted in filling halls by charging sixpence a lecture his quick wittedness and debating skills were honed so much that he could counter every argument with ingenuity, wit and consumate skill . ref name garwood harvnb Garwood 2007 p 46 ref When finally pinned down to a challenge in Plymouth in 1864 by allegations that he wouldn t agree to a test, Parallax appeared on Plymouth Hoe at the appointed time, witnessed by Richard Proctor , a writer on astronomy, and proceeded to the beach where a telescope had been set up. His opponents had claimed that only the lantern of the Eddystone lighthouse , some 14 miles out to sea, would be visible. In fact, only half the lantern was v ... more details
World , Owen s envisioned successor of New Harmony, Indiana New Harmony . Owenism Owenites fired bricks ... original theorist. The Forestville Commonwealth Owenism Owenite community at Coxsackie town , New ... more details
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