Robert Owen's House, New Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately miles ()from Lanark, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers. Dale built the mills there to take advantage of the water power provided by the river. Under the ownership of a partnership that included Dale's son-in-law, Robert Owen, a philanthropist and social reformer, New Lanark became a successful business and an epitome of utopian socialism. The New Lanark mills operated until 1968. After a period of decline, the New Lanark Conservation Trust was founded in 1975 to prevent demolition of the village. By 2006, most of the buildings had been restored and the village has become a major tourist attraction. It is one of four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland and an Anchor Point of ERIH - The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Robert Owen (b. 14 May 1771, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales – d. 17 November 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of socialism and the cooperative movement. Owen's philosophy, which Karl Marx would later name utopian socialism, was derived from three fundamental pillars of his thought. First, he believed that no one was "responsible for his will and his own actions" because "his whole character is formed independently of himself." Owen firmly believed that people were the product of their environment, which fueled his support for education and labour reform. His views made Owen a pioneer in the promotion of investment in human capital. Owen's second pillar was his opposition to religion. Owen felt that all religions were "based on the same absurd imagination" which he said made mankind "a weak, imbecile animal; a furious bigot and fanatic; or a miserable hypocrite." However, he did embrace Spiritualism towards the end of his life. His third pillar said that he disliked the factory system, and supported the cottage system
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Location: Robert Owen's House, New Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
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