Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World by Roy Porter

Author:Roy Porter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: British History
ISBN: 9780140250282
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1990-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

An unbeliever, Owen secularized Christian idioms in envisaging ‘the foretold millennium… when the slave and the prisoner, the bond-man and the bond-woman, and the child and the servant, shall be set free for ever, and oppression of body and mind shall be known no more’.45 While hardly approving, Robert Southey nevertheless found this pioneer of Heaven on Earth remarkable. ‘What ideas individuals may attach to the term Millennium, I know not,’ Southey recalled, hearing Owen hold forth,

but 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 an hundred-fold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment, except ignorance, to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

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