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Updated: May 12, 2025
When accompanying him on his professional visits, or skating on the little Lake of Hanover, or conversing with him in his Diogenes tub, hope came back to him; but when his friend left, hope forsook him. But Peter Schmidt was no vain Utopist. He had a solid basis for his ideals, and endeavoured to realise them in practice.
Putting down with a shaking hand a long glass emptied of its contents paid for by Heyst he said, with that deliberate sagacity which no mere water-drinker ever attained: "Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman. Puffect! But he's a ut-uto-utopist." Heyst had just gone out of the place of public refreshment where this pronouncement was voiced. Utopist, eh?
One who has said as many excellent and practical things as occur in these two beautiful and paradoxical improvisations of yours cannot be a pure and unwavering utopist. You are too well acquainted with the economical and academical phraseology to play with the hard words of revolutions.
When I look round the botanist is out of sight. Section 5 But I am back in the world for all that, and my Utopia is done. It is good discipline for the Utopist to visit this world occasionally.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning, and the World State of the Modern Utopist will, in its economic aspect, be a compendium of established economic experience, about which individual enterprise will be continually experimenting, either to fail and pass, or to succeed and at last become incorporated with the undying organism of the World State.
It is part of the training of the philosopher to regard all such generalisations with suspicion; it is part of the training of the Utopist and statesman, and all good statesmen are Utopists, to mingle something very like animosity with that suspicion. For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life. Section 2
Such endeavours are still undeniably too vague in thought, too crude in practice, and the enthusiast of hygiene or education or temperance may have much to answer for. But so, also, has he who stands outside of the actual civic field, whether as philistine or aesthete, utopist or cynic, party politician or "mug-wump."
A man who could propose, even playfully, to quench old McNab's thirst must have been a utopist, a pursuer of chimeras; for of downright irony Heyst was not prodigal. And, may be, this was the reason why he was generally liked.
He must do that, of course, to pay for his keep, to pay his assurance tax against ill-health or old age, and any charge or debt paternity may have brought upon him. The World State of the modern Utopist is no state of moral compulsions.
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