Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, Volume 1J. Murray, 1829 - 849 pages "His Colloquies of Society (1829) is a calm exposition of his mature social and political convictions: rejection of the Catholic claims and of constitutional reform, support for high taxation to redistribute wealth, and so on. The conversations are conducted with the ghost of Sir Thomas More, whose Utopia was a remote ancestor of pantisocracy. They are set in the neighbourhood of Keswick, and the beauty of the countryside tempers the generally gloomy tone of the conversation, as does the quiet of his splendid library" -ODNB. |
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... question , ) of the condition to which their landlords , their middlemen and their priests have reduced them , and the state of barbarism in which the British Government , by the grossest neglect of its paramount duty xiv PREFACE .
... question , ) of the condition to which their landlords , their middlemen and their priests have reduced them , and the state of barbarism in which the British Government , by the grossest neglect of its paramount duty xiv PREFACE .
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... condition of society is possible than that in which any nation is existing at this time , or has at any time existed . The sum both of moral and physical evil may be greatly dimi- nished by good laws , good institutions , and good ...
... condition of society is possible than that in which any nation is existing at this time , or has at any time existed . The sum both of moral and physical evil may be greatly dimi- nished by good laws , good institutions , and good ...
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... condition of the tattooed Britons , or of the Northern Pirates from whom we are descended . Surely this belief rests upon a reasonable foun- dation , and is supported by that general im- provement ( always going on if it be regarded ...
... condition of the tattooed Britons , or of the Northern Pirates from whom we are descended . Surely this belief rests upon a reasonable foun- dation , and is supported by that general im- provement ( always going on if it be regarded ...
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... condition of society as you contemplate is possible , and that it ought always to be kept in view : but the error of supposing it too near , of fancying that there is a short road to it , is , of all the errors of these times , the most ...
... condition of society as you contemplate is possible , and that it ought always to be kept in view : but the error of supposing it too near , of fancying that there is a short road to it , is , of all the errors of these times , the most ...
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... condition of its inhabitants ; so that the convulsions and changes whereto it is destined should occur , when the existing race of men had either become so cor- rupt , as to be unworthy of the place which they hold in the universe , or ...
... condition of its inhabitants ; so that the convulsions and changes whereto it is destined should occur , when the existing race of men had either become so cor- rupt , as to be unworthy of the place which they hold in the universe , or ...
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