I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.
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Robert Owen in his 1816 address to the inhabitants of New Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Indeed, his words ring more true today than ever before. |
