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"These apostles of industrialization graduated, especially after the failure of the 1848 revolution, from a set of beliefs which has got them into the history books as 'utopian socialists' to a dynamic, adventurous entrepreneurship as 'captains of industry', but above all as constructors of communications. . . . Yet it was a Saint-Simonian, F. M. de Lesseps (1805-94), who actually built the Suez Canal and planned the Panama Canal, to his later misfortune." [Hobsbawm: Capital, p. 57] "Saint-Simon's ideas, expressed largely through a succession of journals such as l'Industrie (1816), La politique (1818) and L'Organisateur (1819–20 focused on the perception that growth in industrialization and scientific discovery would have profound changes on society. He believed that society would restructure itself by abandoning traditional ideas of temporal and spiritual power, an evolution that would lead, inevitably, to a productive society based on and benefiting from, a " … union of men engaged in useful work"; the basis of "true equality". . . . In his last work . . . Saint-Simon reverted to more traditional ideas of renewing society through Christian brotherly love. " [Wikipedia]