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...America from the ignorance and degrading poverty of his own country, with the undeveloped mind of a child and almost in the condition of a barbarian. Deep hatred for all other races, and utter contempt for government has been instilled into him, while America has been painted as a Utopia of absolute equality. Instead of that he finds his condition, though better than at home, far below that of those about him, and cannot understand it in a land of freedom...
...topic was "The Kingdom of Light: Upbuilding of a New Social Order Reciprocally Involved with Regenerated Human Nature." In connection with the subject Mr. Woods discussed the general principle of democracy as the utopia for a redeemed human nature. That the spirit of immortality is being given up is not as true as it is often believed...
...mass of work which is now being done with no material end in view, but only out of a spirit of confidence in immortality is sufficient proof that never before has there been so much nascent interest in the immortal life. The social utopia is varied in form, and it is necessary that all who desire to bring it about should be tolerant of the views of others...
There is nothing about which to be discouraged in our government. Anything looks black when you hold it up against the blazing light of Utopia; but it will look only marred if held where that light will shine upon it. Take for instance the impregnable jungle of our protective tariff. Hold it in the light and see the little demons curled up in its snarled roots and branches. There will be seen little devils of deceit and special privilege, introduced into the tariff, there introduced to each other, and then forming a collective family and posing as the idol...
...poems none stand out except the one by C. P. A., the second stanza of which would be especially charming were it not for the "paradisal snow." Mr. Gray's "Utopia" is not an improvement on Shakspere. The stories are rather slight sketches than stories. "His Valley" by H. B. Wehle is not effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint...