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Essentially, Russell's Utopia is a strongly determinist Garden of Eden where knowledge is virtue and no one has enough free will to choose to do evil. Russell is not unaware of the serpents of danger in the world, but he offers to charm them with never-never tunes that have become more conventional than convincing: 1) world government; 2) world prosperity 3) worldwide birth control; 4) more individual initiative and decentralization of economic and political power...
Even granting that the Soviet "Utopia" has produced such mountains of food as Mr. Philbrick describes, is it logical to assume that these stocks will be distributed to China...
...self-sufficiency in all things has been exploded; his complacent expectation of unchecked progress has been overwhelmed by social disorder and private discontent; his confidence in Rationality has been shattered beyond repair. To what, then, does he cling nowadays? To the feeble hope, ordinarily, of some sort of brummagem Utopia of creature-comforts, characterized by equality of condition, uniformity of life and thought, pervasive state regulation and the obliteration of traditional morality...
...Cambridge, free-lance newspaper feature writer and book reviewer while he perfected his seamless style, finally scored in 1934 with Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The success of Chips led readers and reviewers back to Lost Horizon, written several months earlier, and soon "Shangri-La," the novel's Tibetan Utopia, became an international byword for any man's place of retreat from the world, including Franklin Roosevelt's wartime Maryland hideaway. (Ironically, it was also the name announced by Roosevelt as the place of origin of General Jimmy Doolittle's 1942 Tokyo raid.) Both Lost Horizon and Chips...
...BORMANN LETTERS, edited by H. R. Trevor-Roper (200 pp.; British Book Centre; $3.75), a selection from correspondence between Hitler's mysterious "Brown Eminence" and his wife, is a fascinating document of the dreadful Nazi Utopia. They demonstrate with many expressions of endearment ("My dearest Mummy-Girl") that Martin Bormann (still missing after years of Allied search) was a human being-if a horribly peculiar one. The Bormanns raised a perfect Aryan family of nine, taking care that "none of our children gets depraved and diseased by the poison of Christianity." One day in January 1944, Bormann jubilantly informed...