" Southey gives a more down-to-earth description of what pantisocrats would actually do all day--they would discuss metaphysics while cutting down trees, criticize poetry while hunting buffaloes, and write sonnets while following the plough. The colonists intended that marriage would be abolished and the children brought up in common. This would not have involved sharing of wives but freedom to move from partner to partner according to their changing perceptions of each other's virtues. "

― , The Godwins and the Shelleys: A Biography of a Family