IDEAL COMMONWEALTHS
PLUTARCH'S LYCURGUS
MORE'S UTOPIA
BACON'S NEW ATLANTIS
CAMPANELLA'S CITY OF THE SUN
AND A FRAGMENT OF
HALL'S MUNDUS ALTER ET IDEM
_WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY_
LL.D., PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
FIFTH EDITION
LONDON GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, LIMITED BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL GLASGOW, MANCHESTER, AND NEW YORK
1890
MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.
1. _Sheridan's Plays._
2. _Plays from Moliere._ By English Dramatists.
3. _Marlowe's Faustus_ and _Goethe's Faust._
4. _Chronicle of the Cid._
5. _Rabelais' Gargantua_ and the _Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel._
6. _Machiavelli's Prince._
7. _Bacon's Essays._
8. _Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year._
9. _Locke on Civil Government_ and _Filmer's "Patriarcha"._
10. _Butler's Analogy of Religion._
11. _Dryden's Virgil._
12. _Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft._
13. _Herrick's Hesperides._
14. _Coleridge's Table-Talk._
15. _Boccaccio's Decameron._
16. _Sterne's Tristram Shandy._
17. _Chapman's Homer's Iliad._
18. _Mediaeval Tales._
19. _Voltaire's Candide_, and _Johnson's Rasselas._
20. _Jonson's Plays and Poems._
21. _Hobbes's Leviathan._
22. _Samuel Butler's Hudibras._
23. _Ideal Commonwealths._
24. _Cavendish's Life of Wolsey._
25 & 26. _Don Quixote._
27. _Burlesque Plays and Poems._
28. _Dante's Divine Comedy._ LONGFELLOW'S Translation.
29. _Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, Plays, and Poems._
30. _Fables and Proverbs from the Sanskrit. (Hitopadesa.)_
31. _Lamb's Essays of Elia._
32. _The History of Thomas Ellwood._
33. _Emerson's Essays, &c._
34. _Southey's Life of Nelson._
35. _De Quincey's Confession of an Opium-Eater, &c._
36. _Stories of Ireland._ By Miss EDGEWORTH.
37. _Frere's Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Birds._
38. _Burke's Speeches and Letters._
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Ideal Commonwealths
- 2: Caused the Atlantid kings to grow ambitious and unjust
- 3: And Amerigo Vespucci's account of his voyages
- 4: When he makes him contemporary with the Heraclidae
- 5: To this Eunomus was born Polydectes
- 6: From Crete Lycurgus passed to Asia
- 7: Babyce and Cnacion are now called Oenus
- 8: That Polydorus doubled the number appointed by Lycurgus
- 9: First he stopped the currency of the gold and silver coin
- 10: But the Lacedaemonians styled them Phiditia
- 11: These ordinances he called Rhetrae
- 12: As for the virgins appearing naked
- 13: What punishment their law appointed for adulterers
- 14: The Spartan children were not in that manner
- 15: By way of punishment had his thumb bit by the Iren
- 16: If the Eleans do justice once in five years
- 17: I have heard the nightingale herself
- 18: That Lucurgus at first had no communication with Iphitus
- 19: For Brasidas was indeed a man of honour
- 20: Accustoming the youth to such sights from their infancy
- 21: Declared war against the Helotes
- 22: Down to Agis the son of Archidamus
- 23: And Timaeus and Aristoxenus write
- 24: The Margrave of Bruges was their head
- 25: That when Vesputius had sailed away
- 26: Had treated of the wise institutions both here and there
- 27: That such or such things pleased our ancestors
- 28: There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves
- 29: There is a great number of noblemen among you
- 30: For since the increase of pasture
- 31: Will certainly grow thieves at last
- 32: For since death does not restrain theft
- 33: And restitution being made out of them
- 34: From one jurisdiction to another
- 35: For if the many mockers of Elisha
- 36: I had not observed you to hearken to it
- 37: To which he had some pretensions by an ancient alliance
- 38: The king's undoubted prerogative will be pretended
- 39: That might otherwise dispose them to rebel
- 40: You must not therefore abandon the commonwealth
- 41: A man must barefacedly approve of the worst counsels
- 42: That every man lives in plenty
- 43: So happily did they improve that accident
- 44: The channel is known only to the natives
- 45: These husbandmen till the ground
- 46: It runs down in a descent for two miles to the river Anider
- 47: And over every ten Syphogrants
- 48: And if some few women are diligent
- 49: Four or five upper garments of woollen cloth
- 50: Taking the inhabitants into their society
- 51: They could lodge them conveniently
- 52: If there is a temple within that Syphogranty
- 53: He may freely go over the whole precinct
- 54: And what are under any scarcity
- 55: But the Anemolians lying more remote
- 56: Yet when they saw the ambassadors themselves
- 57: Partly as our ancient philosophers have done
- 58: But willingly to undergo much pain and trouble
- 59: Among those who pursue these sophisticated pleasures
- 60: Harmless and fearful hare should be devoured by strong
- 61: And if the conflict is pleasure
- 62: As the pleasant relishes and seasonings of life
- 63: And to pronounce their language so exactly
- 64: We showed them some books printed by Aldus
- 65: That if they thus deliver themselves from torture
- 66: Which never admits of a divorce
- 67: As they fright men from committing crimes by punishments
- 68: They have no lawyers among them
- 69: Who are no strict observers of leagues and treaties
- 70: But though the Utopians had assisted them in the war
- 71: They take care to have a great many schedules
- 72: The Utopians hold this for a maxim
- 73: But by his cowardice dishearten others
- 74: And distribute the rest among their auxiliary troops
- 75: That whoever is this supreme Being
- 76: And after trial he was condemned to banishment
- 77: They never raise any that hold these maxims
- 78: Some live unmarried and chaste
- 79: Sometimes the women themselves are made priests
- 80: And stopped the effusion of more blood
- 81: In the festival which concludes the period
- 82: The constitution of that commonwealth
- 83: Neither apprehending want himself
- 84: Yet since I perceived that Raphael was weary
- 85: Taking with us victuals for twelve months
- 86: And not so huge as the Turkish turbans
- 87: Whereof our sick were seventeen
- 88: One of the pills every night before sleep
- 89: As for any merchandise you have brought
- 90: That thou never workest miracles
- 91: It was in these words 'I Bartholomew
- 92: That we knew that he spake it but merrily
- 93: That the said country of Atlantis
- 94: And all things that appertain to navigation
- 95: Our lawgiver thought fit altogether to restrain it
- 96: After they had landed the brethren
- 97: The decrees and orders of the Tirsan
- 98: The father or Tirsan standeth up
- 99: And for the country of Bensalem
- 100: For marriage is ordained a remedy for unlawful concupiscence
- 101: He was carried in a rich chariot
- 102: Neither before nor behind his chariot
- 103: And for the view of divers meteors as winds
- 104: But we know beforehand of what matter and commixture
- 105: We have also divers mechanical arts
- 106: But we do hate all impostures and lies
- 107: Then we have divers inventors of our own
- 108: It is so built that if the first circle were stormed
- 109: And have windows on the concave and convex partitions
- 110: It is Wisdom who causes the exterior and interior
- 111: But on the exterior all the inventors in science
- 112: Sometimes they improve themselves mutually with praises
- 113: So many magistrates there are among them
- 114: Wherefore he is not equal to our HOH
- 115: And as in the refectories of the monks
- 116: He is called Macer Manfred or Tortelius
- 117: And consequently those of their offspring
- 118: And Tertullian agrees with the Glossary
- 119: Has under him all the magistrates of arms
- 120: Of engines and hurling machines
- 121: Although they govern the reins with their feet
- 122: The armed guards are distributed
- 123: For the oxen they observe the Bull
- 124: Then afterwards they go back to flesh
- 125: For these diseases are caused by indigestion and flatulency
- 126: The eight magistrates under Hoh
- 127: Or against the supreme magistrates
- 128: And it is from among them mostly that Hoh is elected
- 129: The statues and pictures of the heroes
- 130: And nothingness which is the defect of entity
- 131: He gave with it a map of its Crapulia
- 132: The traveller passes from Pamphagonia to Yvronia
- 133: To the north is Moronia Aspera
- 134: Pamphagonia is of a triangular figure
- 135: That of Marmitta is watered by the river Livenza
- 136: Artopolis boasted of its antiquity
- 137: When they have a belly of an unwieldy bulk
- 138: Are presently banished into the Fancetic Islands