text:  Reybaud has given us a sketch of the biography and opinions of the most celebrated of those men who have undertaken to produce a new scheme of human life for us; he has introduced his description of them and their projects by some account of the previous speculations of a kindred nature indeed but conducted in a very different spirit of Plato Sir Thomas More and others; and he has accompanied the whole with observations of his own which bear the impress of a masculine understanding a candid judgment and a sound healthy condition of the moral sentiments