The thing that made Owen a utopian, rather than just an ambitious reformer, was that he took these foundational modern ideas---that man is not inherently corrupt, that character is formed from without, and that we can control how that happens---and concluded that the right sorts of institutions can mold individuals, and thus society, in whichever way we desire.
---from Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism by Chris Jennings.
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