Utopia has no parliament, no politics, no private wealth, no business competition, no police nor prisons, … and it has none of these things because it has schools and teachers who are all that schools and teachers can be. Politics, trade and competition are…
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In the summer of 1921 a tired London journalist, Mr. Barnstaple, sets off on a motoring holiday and is swept, along with a carload of politicians and society figures, into a parallel world some three thousand years ahead of ours. There they find Utopia: a planet without government, money, war or disease, run on education, science and shared purpose. Wells uses the meeting between the two worlds to argue about human nature, progress and what a better society would demand of us.
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Urthred: It is all the same thing — God, or Evolution, or what you will — so long as you mean a Power beyond your own which excuses you from your duty. Utopia says, 'Do not leave things at all. Take hold.'
Urthred: We have taken over the Old Lady's Estate. Every day we learn a little better how to master this little planet. Every day our thoughts go out more surely to our inheritance, the stars. And the deeps beyond and beneath the stars.
Urthred: These Earthlings do not yet dare to see what our Mother Nature is. At the back of their minds is still the desire to abandon themselves to her. They do not see that except for our eyes and wills, she is purposeless and blind. She is not awful, she is…
But now from this high view-point in Utopia he saw clearly that the Phoenix of Revolution flames down to ashes only to be born again. While the noose is fitted round the Teacher's neck the youths are reading his teaching. Revolutions arise and die; the Great…
Crystal: Once upon a time Utopia was in just such a tangle… But there is a proverb, 'Truth comes back where once she has visited.' You need not trouble so much as you do. Some day even your press may grow clear.