They did not ask whether the organization they envisaged was economically profitable, but whether it was ethically right.

No one can read the history of these years and fail to understand their uncompromising denial of its rightness.

Their negation fell upon unheeding ears; but twenty years later, the tradition for which they stood came into Marx's hands and was fashioned by him into an interpretation of history.

With all its faults of statement and of emphasis, the doctrine of the English socialists has been, in later hands, the most fruitful hypothesis of modern politics.
It was a deliberate effort, upon the basis of Adam Smith's ideas, to create a commonwealth in the interests of the masses.

Wealth, in its view, was less the mere production of goods than the accumulated happiness of humble men.