Description
In the middle of the 19th century that Ralph Waldo Emerson made this comment in a letter to his friend, Thomas Carlyle:
[There is] not a reading man but [who] has a draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket.
I counted 118 of these communities before I ran out of research time. And yet, these good and brave people, and their wonderful stories, have all but vanished from history. But there is a tremendous amount to learn from them, and some of those lessons are particularly important for our time.