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Benjamin Outram (1764 - 1805) (4068 words) |
 | Outram was not initially involved with this as the line was proposed by William Jessop in a report dated the 3 November 1792. |
| Outram was appointed as the Consulting Engineer and because of the difficult terrain he was faced with huge problems, the greatest of which was the construction of the mighty Standedge Tunnel between Marsden and Diggle. |
| Benjamin Outram was the second son of Joseph Outram (an iron master and surveyor) and Elizabeth and the grandson of Joseph Outram and Sara. |
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| Outram says that the folks who tried to make faith reasonable caused as many problems as they solved, and ran the risk of erecting human reason as the focus of a new religion. |
| Outram suggests that Robinson Crusoe (1719) is a parable, conscious or otherwise, of the relationship between European and the rest of the world in the Enlightenment. |
| Outram says that in the 16th and 17th centuries explorers wondered whether or not American Indians were human and had souls. |
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