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“Mere dogmas seldom explain human character.”

Warning against reducing complex people to fixed theories · Letter to George Bernard Shaw, 1891

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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…

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