Thursday, February 23, 2012

here were monsters

"By the 18th century a reader could be expected to regard skeptically a traveler returned with tales of monsters and natural prodigies after the manner of the medieval voyages to the East; but he could readily be convinced that somewhere among the gentle people living in a state of nature or in a simple state of civility there was an ideally happy society."
p. 435, F. E. and F. P Manuel, Utopian Thought in the Western World.

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