ABSTRACT
At New Lanark near the Falls of Clyde on 1 January 1816, in an annex to a cotton factory, a 45-year-old cotton miller delivered an address: ‘What ideas’, said Robert Owen,
‘individuals may attach to the term Millennium, I know not; but I know that society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without povery, with health greatly improved, with little, if any, misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased an hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment, except ignorance, to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.’
To overcome that obstacle, this two-storied annex had been built, a school museum, music hall and ballroom. It reflected the desire of the miller to increase the happiness of his work-people a hundredfold.