Shepherd Smith the Universalist, the Story of a Mind
Shepherd Smith the Universalist, the Story of a Mind

Author: William Anderson Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-04-27

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9780366231324

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Excerpt from "Shepherd" Smith the Universalist, the Story of a Mind: Being a Life of the Rev. James E. Smith, M. A., Editor of "Family Herald," "Crisis," Etc., And Author of "the Divine Drama of History and Civilisation" But his great 'mission' was that of 'universal Charity' in opposition to the narrow 'faith' of the Scottish Church, in which he had been educated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America
Robert Owen and the Owenites in Britain and America

Author: John Harrison

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2009-11-26

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 041556431X

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Robert Owen and the Owenites were associated with the rise of an early industrial society in Britain and with the development of an agricultural, frontier society in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. This book, originally published in 1969, was the first to use both British and American source material, and tells the story of Robert Owen and the movement associated with his name, from the standpoint of comparative social and intellectual history. The book directs new light on Owenism, and at the same time illuminates general problems of the history of social movements and social change in modern societies.

The Great Delusion
The Great Delusion

Author: Steven Stoll

Publisher: Hill and Wang

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1429996196

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Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But when did people begin to believe that societies should—even that they must—expand in wealth indefinitely? In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who pursued universal wealth from the inexhaustible forces of nature: wind, water, and sunlight. The Great Delusion neatly demonstrates that Etzler's fantasy has become our reality and that we continue to live by some of the same economic assumptions that he embraced. Like Etzler, we assume that the transfer of matter from environments into the economy is not bounded by any condition of those environments and that energy for powering our cars and iPods will always exist. Like Etzler, we think of growth as progress, a turn in the meaning of that word that dates to the moment when a soaring productive capacity fused with older ideas about human destiny. The result is economic growth as we know it, not as measured by the gross domestic product but as the expectation that our society depends on continued physical expansion in order to survive.