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Introduction by Hendrik Willem van Loon, Ph.D.
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How the will-to-utopia causes men to live in two worlds, and how, therefore, we re-read the Story of Utopia—the other half of the Story of Mankind. | |
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How the Greeks lived in a New World, and utopia seemed just round the corner. How Plato in the Republic is chiefly concerned with what will hold the ideal city together. | |
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How something happened to utopia between Plato and Sir Thomas More; and how utopia was discovered again, along with the New World. | |
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How the new Humanism of the Renascence brings us within sight of Christianopolis; and how we have for the first time a glimpse of a modern utopia. | |
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How Bacon and Campanella, who have a great reputation as utopians, are little better than echoes of the men who went before them. | |
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How something happened in the eighteenth century which made men "furiously to think," and how a whole group of utopias sprang out of the upturned soil of industrialism. | |
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How some utopians have thought that a good community rested at bottom on the right division and use of land; and what sort of communities these land-animals projected. | |
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How Étienne Cabet dreamed of a new Napoleon called Icar, and a new France called Icaria; and how his utopia, with that which Edward Bellamy shows us in Looking Backward, gives us a hint of what machinery might bring us to if the industrial organization were nationalized. | |
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How William Morris and W. H. Hudson renew the classic tradition of utopias; and how, finally, Mr. H. G. Wells sums up and clarifies the utopias of the past, and brings them into contact with the world of the present. | |
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How the Country House and Coketown became the utopias of the modern age; and how they made the world over in their image. | |
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How we reckon up accounts with the one-sided utopias of the partisans. | |
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How the half-worlds must go, and how eutopia may come; and what we need before we can build Jerusalem in any green and pleasant land. | |
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