Not Static but Kinetic
But the Modern Utopia must be not static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state.
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Context: Wells explains how a modern Utopia must differ from the perfect, unchanging Utopias of earlier writers.
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Source: Chapter 1, Section 1