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OWEN, Robert. ~ The revolution in the mind and practice of the human race; or, the coming change from irrationality to rationality...

London: Effingham Wilson,  1849.
First edition, presentation copy. As the title suggests, this later work is essentially Owen's response to the European political upheavals of 1848, the year of the Paris Commune and of the publication of Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto. Since Owen had made his first practical statement of socialist principles in A New View of Society (1813-14) the socialist movement had become the central theme of European politics: "A revolution from wrong to right, from falsehood to truth, from oppression to justice, from deception and misery to straightforward honesty and happiness, has commenced" (Revolution in the mind and practice..., Ch. 3, p. 39). Owen, for his part, had also accrued the experience of his social experiments at New Lanark, New Harmony (United States) and Queenwood. He fundamentally opposed the principle of 'revolutionary socialism' which advocated violence as the only way of fomenting the necessary change in society. The present work opens with envoys both to Queen Victoria and "To the Red Republicans, Communists and Socialists of Europe" - the latter being a stinging reprimand for the mistakes of 1848 in which he accuses the Communists of committing the same errors as their enemies by resorting to violence rather than reason and kindness.The work provides a succinct retrospective account of the New Lanark experiment as an illustration of Owen's principles (and as a mature admission of the limitations of his first experiment) and proceeds to rehearse the basic principles and laws of a genuinely rational society, many of which he had earlier developed in the The Book of the New Moral World (1836-44). A supplement to the work appeared later in 1849.   view more...
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BROUGHAM and VAUX, Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron. ~ The present state of the law. The speech of Henry Brougham, Esq., M.P., in the House of Commons, on Thursday, February 7, 1828, on his motion, that an humble address be presented His Majesty, praying that he will graciously be pleased to issue a commission for inquring into the defects occasioned by time and otherwise in the laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same.

London: Henry Colburn,  1828.
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MILL, John Stuart. ~ Autobiography.

London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer,  1873.
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HOLE, Reynolds S. ~ Nice and her Neighbours.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,   1881.
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WHITE, Gleeson. ~ The Master Painters of Britain.

London: The Claxton Publishing Co.,  n.d. [c. 1897]
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. ~ A fragment on government; or, a comment of the commentaries: being an examination of what is delivered on the subject of government in general, in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's commentaries: with a preface, in which is given a critique on the work at large. Second edition, enlarged.

London: for W. Pickering and E. Wilson,  1823.
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BENTHAM, Jeremy. ~ A fragment on government; or, a comment on the Commentaries: being an examination of what is delivered on the subject of government in general, in the introduction to Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries: with a preface, in which is given a critique on the work at large. Second edition, enlarged.

London: for W. Pickering and E. Wilson,  1823.
£200.00
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MOUCHEZ, Ernest Barthélémy. ~ La photographie astronomique a l'Observatoire de Paris et la carte du ciel.

Paris: Gauthier-Villars,  1887.
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