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OWEN, Robert (1771-1858)

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Born: 1771

Died: 1858

Editorial Description

successful manager of mills in New Lanark who turned philanthropist, advocate of co-operation and practitioner of communitarian socialism; lectured and wrote on establishing the Rational Social System and the New Moral World; via mesmerism, he turned to spiritualism late in life; an advocate of the doctrine that character is determined by external circumstances rather than by innate physiology, he regarded phrenology as a threat, though on two occasions he had his head delineated, once by SPURZHEIM, and once by S. T. HALL. (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

864.1 — 864.1 "Phrenology and Mr. Owen [with letters from Owen]," PHREN J, 1 (1823/4): 463-6.
864.2 — 864.2 "Address to Phrenologists, by an Advocate for the Principle of 'The Formation of Human Character by the Influence of Circumstances," " Co-operative Mag, 3 (July 1828): 97-111; reprinted in NEW MORAL WORLD, 3-25 Apr 1835: 3, 190-1, 198-200, 207-8. 180-
864.3 — 864.3 [and J. D. HOLM], "Owenism and Phrenology," PHREN J, 9 (1834/6): 489-94. (Owen's comments and Holm's reply to Holm's lectures of 1835.)
864.4 — 864.4 A Dialogue, in Three Parts. Between the Founder of 'The Association of All Classes of All Nations,' And a Stranger Desirous of Being Accurately Informed Respecting Its Origins and Objects. Manchester: A. Heywood, 1838. Pp. 28. (Almost all of the 2nd dialogue and a part of the 3rd were concerned with phrenology and were the same as that printed in NEW MORAL WORLD, 28 Mar 1835: 169-72.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	864.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	259
Printed page	254
Database ID	2452

Original Transcription

864. OWEN, Robert (1771-1858), successful manager of mills in New
Lanark who turned philanthropist, advocate of co-operation and
practitioner of communitarian socialism; lectured and wrote on establishing the Rational Social System and the New Moral World; via


mesmerism, he turned to spiritualism late in life; an advocate of the
doctrine that character is determined by external circumstances
rather than by innate physiology, he regarded phrenology as a
threat, though on two occasions he had his head delineated, once
by SPURZHEIM, and once by S. T. HALL. (DNB)