there (the Rappites), and made his great experiment in living in common; and late in life he published his Book of the New Moral World, which contains the exposition of his doctrine.
It will be thus seen that he was unwearied in practical experiments. His shortcoming was the necessary one of the Utopist,—a total disregard of the political side of progress. He failed to see that his experiments, useful as they were from that point of view, could never develop out of the experimental stage as long as the constitution of Society implies the upholding of the socalled “rights of property.” He ignored also the antagonism of classes which necessarily exists under this system, and which in the long run must bring about the Socialism that he, the most generous and best of men, spent his whole life in attempting to realise. He died in 1858.
Saint Simon was born of a noble 211 family at Paris in 1760. He acquired and ran through a fortune, deliberately experimenting in the various forms of “life” from extravagance to abject poverty. There was in him none of that tendency