Word: utopias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wells Sketches a Utopia of Generous Worth
...sooner have the Earthlings become acclimated to Utopia, than they yet about to conquer it in the good old fashioned way of Pizarro and Clive. Infectious diseases have been so long stamped out in Utopia by the Utopian scientists that the mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them...
...Critics. Henry James Forman in The New York Times: " Wells in our era has made Utopia constructively visible and almost respectable...
...Wells' Utopia where there are neither money nor clothes nor an idle hour...
...results are perhaps most amusing when prophets write history and historians prophesy. Mr. Wells' facile pen was able to trace the entire history of the world from the monkey to the World War as little more than a preface to the Utopia which was fermenting in his brain. German historians have found the prophet's robes pleasant. The latest, Dr. Kemmerich, too engrossed in the past to heed the late war, predicts that in twenty years Germany will be the mightiest nation in Europe. But since he also predicts that a new Romanoff czar will appear at the same time...