Ideal Commonwealths
In Lycurgus Plutarch recounts the life of Sparta`s legendary founder Lycurgus and the evolution of Spartan political and social institutions. Sir Thomas More`s Utopia is the sixteenth-century classic of a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed, and vice were nonexistent. Francis Bacon`s New Atlantis, paints "his Ideal Commonwealth in those seas where a great Austral continent was even then supposed to be, but had not been discovered. As the old Atlantis implied a foreboding of the American continent, so the New Atlantis implied foreboding of the Australian. Bacon in his philosophy sought through experimental science the dominion of...
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