Excerpt from Hampden in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society

"They order this matter better in France, " they order another better in Spain, nay, even unhappy Portugal may have some peculiarities worthy of imitation. Happy, indeed, would it be for mankind if the delegates of all civilized nations were to assemble in congress and submit their various institutions, laws and customs to a strict comparison and scrutiny, and then synthetically from a scheme of universal polity! This could not be a Utopia, according to the general misapplication of that term, but a system deduced from experience upon the clearest principles of science.

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