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  • It is open to him to write his own Utopia and arrange that everybody shall do nothing except by the consent of the savants of the Republic, either in his eating, drinking, dressing or lodging, even as Cabet proposed.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • More, too, denied privacy and ruled an absolute community of goods, at any rate, and so, coming to the Victorian Utopias, did Cabet.

    A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

  • In his Garantien der Harmonie und Freiheit (1842), he presented a system not unlike those of Fourier and Cabet.

    2. Intellectual and Religious Trends 2001

  • Subsequently the French reformer, Charles Fourier (1772–1837), proposed the setting up of phalanstères, or cooperative communities, in a rural setting; and Étienne Cabet (1788–1856) in his Voyage en Icarie (1840) pictured an imaginative, highly planned, and regulated community.

    2. Intellectual and Religious Trends 2001

  • Cabet, and other utopians established communistic colonies in America, attracted by cheap land; some became famous, but all failed.

    ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968

  • Étienne Cabet imagined such a new community in his Voyage in Icaria (1840) in terms derived from earlier utopian speculation.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968

  • Philippe Buchez and Proudhon, as well as Cabet — who preached a “true Christianity” — felt that Christianity itself, properly understood, was simply socialism by another, older name.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968

  • Cabet, who had remained in France, had more than one judicial investigation to undergo in consequence, but was honourably acquitted.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Also Félix Bonnaud, _Cabet et son oeuvre, appel à tous les socialistes_ (Paris, 1900); J. Prudhommeaux, _Icaria and its Founder,

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Socialism which culminated towards 1848, whose best-known publicists were Cabet, Pecqueur, Louis Blanc, Vidal, is precisely that it no longer attributes to the State the power to transform, the capacity to revolutionize, the rôle of magic regeneration, which the writers in this dangerous phase of enthusiasm assigned to it.

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

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