text:  St Simon sacrificing his fortune abjuring the patronage of the court dying in extreme poverty--Charles Fourier refusing all entrance into commerce that would implicate him with a vicious system and pursuing to the end amidst want and ridicule the labours of social regeneration--our own Robert Owen quitting ease and fortune and crossing the Atlantic for the New World there to try upon a virgin soil his bold experiment of a new society;--these men rise before us endowed with a certain courage and devotion which ought to command our admiration