“Good & true enthusiasts must always succeed, even when they must fail; for they are the salt of the earth, & keep it from putrescence.”
About Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901
On a warm August morning in 1841, in the quiet Staffordshire village of Caverswall, Robert Williams Buchanan was born on August 18. He entered a world already marked by ideological fervor and social upheaval, for his father, Robert Buchanan senior, was no ordinary parent but a passionate advocate of Robert Owen's…