[posted] Posted(#62506, Mather)
David Price
ccx074 at pglaf.org
Sun Jun 28 04:03:29 PDT 2020
Socialism Exposed, by Rev. Joseph Mather 62506
[Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/6/2/5/0/62506 ]
[Files: 62506-0.txt; 62506-h.htm]
For those wishing to know: published by the Religious Tract Society,
probably in the 1830's, this is one of many tracts which attacked the
Socialist Robert Owen, mainly because he was an atheist and also thought
the establishment had used religion to enforce the poverty of the then
existing social order. Owen had become famous for his good treatment of
workers etc., many of the lower-classes were flocking to hear him, and the
religious saw this as a distinct threat to them, their power, and place in
society.
All the best,
David
Sunny and very windy England
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