Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field throughout western education. But if, as seems more likely, it is restored to the limbo of things unwanted and unused, the progenitors of this chimera will have to admit that an a priori language, like an automat-man, is feasible only in a rationalistic heaven or a mechanistic Utopia...
...October "Century" maintains that the citadel from which the cultured professors sneer at their more practical-minded brethren is itself far from impregnable. He charges that these scholars are lecturing as if their classes were all composed of independently wealthy youths being fitted for sinecure positions in a "gilded Utopia" and that the result is a number of graduates filled with a love of the True and the Beautiful but with only disgust and neglect for the actual world...
...nineteenth century. Even fifty years ago there was no doubt in the public mind as to the definition of a socialist--a revolutionist and a social renegade. At that time he was as easily recognized by his objections to the status quo as by his proposed methods of reaching Utopia. Now it is somewhat difficult to find even a "blood-sucking capitalist" to agree that all's right in the world. The socialist's ideal has expanded somewhat, it is true and for the original Fabians and Marxianists have sprung a varying breed, of social agitators, but doubtless the chief...
...reality. An automobile trip in the fashion of his hovel will not have to end in a wreck which magically throws its occupants into another world. A peaceful journey to California will accomplish the same result, and the weather is sure to be better than in Mr. Wells's Utopia...
Will There Be Rover Boys in Utopia...