… belief in the regeneration of man through nature. They enthusiastically devised a plan to set up ‘an experimental society, living in pastoral seclusion, sharing property, labour, and self-government equally among all its adult members, … as it was extravagant, of trying the experiment of human Perfectibility on the banks of Susquahannah ; where our little Society, in its second Generation, was to have combined the innocence of the patriarchal Age with the knowledge and … with social inequalities and the dehumanizing effects of factory work and extreme poverty: ‘[…] those institutions of society which should condemn me to the necessity of twelve hours daily toil, would make my soul a slave, and sink the …