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“Mr. Owen, the Philanthropist”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Who today can be compared with Robert Owen, the “great manufacturer with a bent for benevolence” who rebelled against the crudities of a vigorously expanding industrial organization? The difference between Owen and our great modern benefactors is perhaps that they are always manufacturers with a bent more or less accentuated for benevolence, while Owen's bent became a fanatical passion to redeem a hostilely suspicious world which ultimately repudiated him.

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Business History Review , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , October 1930 , pp. 15 - 16
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1930

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