ABSTRACT
The Utopian Socialists were the last of the line of the Utopians in the original and widely accepted meaning of the term. The nation therefore assumed the responsibilities of capital. It was an extension of the functions of government to the economic welfare of all the people. The old Utopias were peopled with citizens who were well-looking and upright and mentally and morally in tune. In Utopia furthermore it is necessary in order to secure good births and good home conditions that the union of the sexes should not be free nor promiscuous, nor practically universal throughout the adult population. The chief difference between the world and Utopia is that we are a bit undeveloped and out of order. The sordidness and weakness of to-day is always imperceptibly but surely replaced by something else, and the future is recast in the spirit of what are now obscure and im-palpable beginnings.
