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Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14)
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

Author: Elbert Hubbard

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LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOLUME 11

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

by

ELBERT HUBBARD

Memorial Edition

New York
1916.

CONTENTS

ROBERT OWEN
JAMES OLIVER
STEPHEN GIRARD
MAYER A. ROTHSCHILD
PHILIP D. ARMOUR
JOHN J. ASTOR
PETER COOPER
ANDREW CARNEGIE
GEORGE PEABODY
A. T. STEWART
H. H. ROGERS
JAMES J. HILL

ROBERT OWEN

I have always expended to the last shilling my surplus wealth in
promoting this great and good cause of industrial betterment. The
right-reverend prelate is greatly deceived when he says that I have
squandered my wealth in profligacy and luxury. I have never
expended a pound in either; all my habits are habits of temperance
in all things, and I challenge the right-reverend prelate and all
his abettors to prove the contrary, and I will give him and them
the means of following me through every stage and month of my life.

--_Robert Owen, in Speech before the House of Lords_

[Illustration: ROBERT OWEN]

In Germany, the land of philosophy, when the savants sail into a sea of
doubt, some one sets up the cry, "Back to Kant!"

In America, when profess