Others had also tried to plan better worlds, fairer worlds: in the fourth century B.C.E., Plato with his Republic; in 1602, Italian friar Tommaso Campanella and his highly organized City of the Sun; just a few years later, English philosopher Francis Bacon in narrating “the happy and flourishing estate ” of his New Atlantis.
इसका वर्णन उसने एक अद्‌भुत, शान्तिपूर्ण, और सहनशील स्थान के रूप में किया जो उसे ज्ञात अपभ्रष्ट संसार से बहुत भिन्‍न था ।