Yes, surely! and if others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.
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A Victorian socialist falls asleep in London and wakes in a peaceful, green England of the future, where money, prisons and parliaments have disappeared. Guided by friendly locals, he travels up the Thames and asks how this new society works and how it came about. Morris's utopia imagines a world where work has become a pleasure and art is part of everyday life.
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What is the object of Revolution? Surely to make people happy. Revolution having brought its foredoomed change about, how can you prevent the counter-revolution from setting in except by making people happy? What! shall we expect peace and stability from…
Yes, they were made to 'save labour' (or, to speak more plainly, the lives of men) on one piece of work in order that it might be expended — I will say wasted — on another, probably useless, piece of work. Friend, all their devices for cheapening labour simply…
I will answer your question briefly by saying that we are very well off as to politics, — because we have none.
Hammond: No reward of labour? … The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough? Guest: But no reward for especially good work Hammond: Plenty of reward … the reward of creation. The wages which God gets, as people might have said time agone.
Now, dear guest, let me tell you that our present parliament would be hard to house in one place, because the whole people is our parliament.