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Updated: May 29, 2025
Sir Thomas More professed to describe Utopia, which means No-place, and mentions a river Waterless. Don't look so desperately lofty. I will show you the book, if you are so incorrigibly stupid." He passed his arm round her as he spoke, and kept her close beside him. "Mr. Lockhart, is he telling the truth?" cried she incredulously. "Certainly he is," answered her stepfather, smiling.
These, seven or eight in number, from The House of the Wulfings to The Sundering Flood, published after the author's death in 1898, were actual romances written in a kind of modernised fifteenth-century English, and dealing, some with far back incidents of the conflict between Romans and "Barbarians," most with the frank no-time and no-place of Romance itself.
He was perfectly satisfied with the no-place, no-where with the vague temple, or palace hall, or public square where, as in the country of the abstract, the action of pseudo-classic tragedy always takes place, or, more properly speaking, the talking of pseudo-classic tragedy always goes on; he was perfectly satisfied with sending in a servant or a messenger to inform the public of a murder or suicide committed behind the scenes; he was perfectly satisfied with taking up a story, so to speak, at the eleventh hour, without tracing it to its original causes or developing it through its various phases.
In short, the theory of Malthus and herein lies the great merit of this writer, a merit which none of his colleagues has dreamed of attributing to him is a reductio ad absurdum of all political economy. As for socialism, that was summed up long since by Plato and Thomas More in a single word, UTOPIA, that is, NO-PLACE, a chimera.
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