A Modern Utopia
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Cricket, tennis, fives, billiards----. You will find clubs and a class of men to play all these things inUtopia, but not the samurai. And they must play their games asgames, not as displays; the price of a privacy for playing cricket, so that they could charge for admission, would be overwhelminglyhigh.... Negroes are often very clever at cricket. For a time, mostof the samurai had their sword-play, but few do those exercises now, and until about fifty years ago they went out for military train...ing, a fortnight in every year, marching long distances, sleeping in theopen, carrying provisions, and sham fighting over unfamiliar grounddotted with disappearing targets. There was a curious inability inour world to realise that war was really over for good and all. " "And now, " I said, "haven't we got very nearly to the end of yourprohibitions? You have forbidden alcohol, drugs, smoking, betting, and usury, games, trade, servants. But isn't there a vow ofChastity?" "That is the Rule for your earthly orders?" "Yes--except, if I remember rightly, for Plato's Guardians.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Cricket, tennis, fives, billiards----. You will find clubs and a class of men to play all these things inUtopia, but not the samurai. And they must play their games asgames, not as displays; the price of a privacy for playing cricket, so that they could charge for admission, would be overwhelminglyhigh.... Negroes are often very clever at cricket. For a time, mostof the samurai had their sword-play, but few do those exercises now, and until about fifty years ago they went out for military train...ing, a fortnight in every year, marching long distances, sleeping in theopen, carrying provisions, and sham fighting over unfamiliar grounddotted with disappearing targets. There was a curious inability inour world to realise that war was really over for good and all. " "And now, " I said, "haven't we got very nearly to the end of yourprohibitions? You have forbidden alcohol, drugs, smoking, betting, and usury, games, trade, servants. But isn't there a vow ofChastity?" "That is the Rule for your earthly orders?" "Yes--except, if I remember rightly, for Plato's Guardians.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Wells Herbert George to read onlineMoreLess
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