Utopia: Or the Happy Republic, a Philosophical Romance. to Which is Added, the New Atlantis, By ...
Utopia: Or the Happy Republic, a Philosophical Romance. to Which is Added, the New Atlantis, By ...
Thomas More
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We asked him many questions concerning all these things, to which he answered very willingly; only we made no en- quiries after monsters, than which nothing is more common ; for everywhere one may hear of raven- ous dogs and wolves, and cruel men-eaters; but it is not so easy to find states that are well and wisely govemedJ^ But as he told us of many things that were *^ States aie always best governed on paper; but, though this must for ever continue to be the case, few persons will deny that v...ery great improvements might be effected both in the theory and practice of government. Many of these improve- ments were foreseen and advocated by Sir Thomas More, whose notions in most things were diametrically opposed to those put forward in his name by Mr. Southey, in his " Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society." HAPPY REPUBLIC. 19 amiss in those new-found nations, so he reckoned up not a few things, from which patterns might be taken for correcting the errors of these nations among whom we live ; of which an account may be given, as I have already promised, at some other time ; for at present I intend only to relate those particulars that he told us of the manners and laws of the Utopians: but I will begin with the occasion that led us to speak of that common- wealth.
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