Utopia

The Amana Colonies were one of numerous idealistic settlements set up on American soil amid the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years. There were many mutual idealistic investigations in the early United States, and the Shakers alone established around 20 settlements. While awesome contrasts existed between the different idealistic groups or states, every general public shared a typical bond in a dream of mutual living in an idealistic culture. The meaning of an idealistic state, as indicated by Robert V. Hine, creator of California's Utopian Colonies, "comprises of a gathering of individuals who are endeavoring to build up another social example in light of a dream of the perfect society and who have pulled back themselves from the group everywhere to encapsulate that vision in exploratory shape." These provinces can, by definition, be made out of either religious or common individuals, the previous worrying in the western convention a group life roused by religion while the last may express the optimism of an utilitarian ideology practical to setting up human bliss, with a faith in the helpful lifestyle.