The Utopia: Chapter XVII-XVIII

 Candide said, "It must be unknown to the rest of the world, because everything is so different from what we are used to"(77). This must be the world talked a about in the description i found in the introduction: "The details lifted from Garcilaso are sometimes grotesque; nevertheless Candide here finds all the eighteenth century Man of reason could desire--a society in which all physical to law;where men simplified religious belief to to the lowest common denominator of natural religion;where neither crime nor war exists; where the achievements of science are respected;and were men enjoy equality and fraternity"(12). This is the kind of world every man dreams of. Sort of the utopia Voltaire wanted to live in. It is incredible how Voltaire's criticism of reality or of the actual world is evident  through "El dorado". When the old man says: "We have so far been sheltered from the greed of the European nations, who have a quite irrational lust for the pebbles and dirt found in our soil"(79). It is absurd how he describes something as valuable and precious as emeralds as "dirt found in our soil" but of how he wants to criticize the greediness of the actual world and also the materialism found in it. As the description in the introduction says this is the escape of Candide of a better world, of the ideal world. Perhaps that was the vision of Voltaire's perfect world and with the descrpition of it society is questioned.

Unfortunately it has been more than 200 years and not one site of this world has been somehow seen.  Luckily we can still dream.