 Bellers is also quoted in a footnote in Chapter 23 of Das Kapital; "Labour [is] as proper for the body’s health as eating is for its living [...] Labour adds Oyl to the Lamp of Life when thinking Inflames it".Robert Owen read the proposals in 1817, and in a letter to "The Times" acknowledged their resemblance to the community he himself had created at New Lanark.He had 1,000 copies reprinted that year.