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... utopia — indeed, one nineteenth-century utopia was called Freeland — the pervasive character of all utopias is their totalitarian absolutism, the reduction of variety and choice, and the effort to escape from such natural conditions or ...
... utopia — indeed, one nineteenth-century utopia was called Freeland — the pervasive character of all utopias is their totalitarian absolutism, the reduction of variety and choice, and the effort to escape from such natural conditions or ...
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... Utopia knows all of them? Beneath the medieval garments of More's perfect commonwealth an iron Robot has already begun to move his artificial limbs, plucking the fruits of life with iron claws. What is the meaning of these many efforts ...
... Utopia knows all of them? Beneath the medieval garments of More's perfect commonwealth an iron Robot has already begun to move his artificial limbs, plucking the fruits of life with iron claws. What is the meaning of these many efforts ...
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... utopia one better by giving his 'Modern Utopia' a planetary scope. Unfortunately neither Bellamy's military organization nor Wells' caste organization of ... UTOPIA TO KAKOTOPIA The literature of utopias shades. BELLAMY'S. BACKWARD. DREAM.
... utopia one better by giving his 'Modern Utopia' a planetary scope. Unfortunately neither Bellamy's military organization nor Wells' caste organization of ... UTOPIA TO KAKOTOPIA The literature of utopias shades. BELLAMY'S. BACKWARD. DREAM.
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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