ABSTRACT
The ethico-religious Utopians were entirely ideological in their schemes—utterly removed from the earth. The Utopians prior to the Utopian Socialists had no surety of certainly realizing their hopes. Their states were perfect, utterly devoid of change and development, and far removed from this world. For the Utopians society was an uncontrollable beast, with its evil tempers, diseases, and ungovernable natural forces, distorted bodies and souls, and its perverted institutions. And they had no conception of how to begin converting what they saw about them into something better. Because of the supposed impossibility of attainment, they chose the form we customarily speak of as Utopian. The Utopian Socialists were students of Rousseau, and imbued with the spirit of the French Revolution.
