text:  What a stride has been taken since those olden times when the philosophic visionary devised his Utopian society with all the freedom because with all the irresponsibility of dreams! He so little contemplated any practical result that he did not even venture to bring his new commonwealth on the old soil of Europe lest it should appear too strange and be put out of countenance by the broad reality: but he carried it out to some far-off island in the ocean and created a new territory for his new people