Sentences with phrase «century social reformers»

Rossiter was one of many 19th - century social reformers, philanthropists and artists who set out to improve not only housing and sanitation, but education and culture.

Each of the three cities have a proud humanist history, Manchester being associated with Robert Owen, the eighteenth century social reformer and founder of the co-operative movement; Alan Turing, mathematician and founder of computer science; Professor John Harris, philosopher and bio-ethicist; and Professor Brian Cox, physicist, TV presenter and former pop - star.

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At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

The etymology of the term «Dalit» goes back to the 19th century when a Marathi social reformer and revolutionary Mahatma Jyotirao Phule used it to describe the «outcastes» and «untouchables» as the «oppressed and crushed victims of the Indian caste system.»

The social reformers of 19th century America count in many ways as evangelicals, as do the revivalists who preceded them in the 18th century.

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.

Jeremy Bentham, eighteenth - century English philosopher and social reformer, hit the nail on the head when he said, about all animals, «The question is not, Can they reason?

Their roots lie also in the caring practices of the social reformer Jane Addams, whose 19th - and early 20th - century settlement houses were designed to help immigrants and the poor gain solid footing so they could contribute to the country's prosperity.

The social reformer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American man of the nineteenth century.