If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Robert Dale Owen (November 7 1801 – June 24 1877) was a longtime exponent in his adopted United States of the socialist doctrines of his father Robert Owen as well as a politician in the Democratic Party. He was a strong believer in Spiritualism and was the author of two well-known books on the subject: Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World (1859) and The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next (1872). Biography
Born in Glasgow Scotland Owen emigrated to the United States in 1825 and helped his father create the community of New Harmony Indiana.

Robert Dale Owen (November 7 1801 – June 24 1877) was a longtime exponent in his adopted United States of the socialist doctrines of his father Robert Owen as well as a politician in the Democratic Party.