"...the utopian dream of perfection, that necessary compensation for the limitations and frustrations of the present state, having long been identified with the Golden Age or the Garden of Eden or life eternal in the Heavenly City of God, and then by the sophisticated transferred to remote or imagined lands (the moon or Atlantis or Nowhere, Tahiti or Pennsylvania or Peking), was at last projected into the life of man on earth and identified with the desired and hoped-for regeneration of society."
-- The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, Carl L. Becker, 1932, p. 139.
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