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A Modern Utopia

Section 2 

Word Count: 420    |    Released on: 18/11/2017

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r. Too often the prospect resembles the key to one of those large pictures of coronations, royal weddings, parliaments, conferences, and gatherings so popular in Victorian times, in which, instead of a face, each figure bears a neat oval with its index number legibly inscribed. This burthens us with an incurable effect of unreality, and I do not see how it is altogether to be escaped. It is a disadvantage that has to be accepted. Whatever institution has existed or exists, however irrational, however preposterous, has, by virtue of its

a month of the relentless publicity of virtue planned by More. . . . No one wants to live in any community of intercourse really, save for the sake of the individualities he would meet there. The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life, and all our U

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A Modern Utopia
H. G. Wells Modern
“Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia (1905) has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to solve "the problem of combining progress with political stability.”
1 A Note to the Reader2 The Owner of the Voice3 Chapter the First Topographical Section 14 Section 25 Section 36 Section 47 Section 58 Section 69 Section 710 Chapter the Second Concerning Freedoms Section 111 Section 212 Section 313 Section 414 Section 515 Section 616 Section 717 Chapter the Third Utopian Economics Section 118 Section 219 Section 320 Section 421 Section 522 Section 623 Section 724 Section 825 Chapter the Fourth The Voice of Nature Section 126 Section 227 Section 328 Section 429 Chapter the Fifth Failure in a Modern Utopia Section 130 Section 231 Section 332 Section 433 Section 534 Section 635 Section 736 Section 837 Chapter the Sixth Women in a Modern Utopia Section 138 Section 239 Section 340 Section 441 Section 542 Section 643 Chapter the Seventh A Few Utopian Impressions Section 144 Section 245 Section 346 Section 447 Section 548 Section 649 Section 750 Chapter the Eighth My Utopian Self Section 151 Section 252 Section 353 Section 454 Section 555 Chapter the Ninth The Samurai Section 156 Section 257 Section 358 Section 459 Section 560 Section 661 Section 762 Section 863 Chapter the Tenth Race in Utopia Section 164 Section 265 Section 366 Section 467 Section 568 Chapter the Eleventh The Bubble Bursts Section 169 Section 270 Section 371 Section 472 Section 573 Appendix Scepticism of the Instrument