"Why is it rot?
Mr.Shigalov is somewhat fanatical in his love for humanity, but remember that Fourier, still more Cabet and even Proudhon himself, advocated a number of the most despotic and even fantastic measures.

Mr.
Shigalov is perhaps far more sober in his suggestions than they are.

I assure you that when one reads his book it's almost impossible not to agree with some things.

He is perhaps less far from realism than anyone and his earthly paradise is almost the real one--if it ever existed--for the loss of which man is always sighing." "I knew I was in for something," Verhovensky muttered again.
"Allow me," said the lame man, getting more and more excited.
"Conversations and arguments about the future organisation of society are almost an actual necessity for all thinking people nowadays.

Herzen was occupied with nothing else all his life.