Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Socialism
In order to facilitate the ready understanding of the divisions used in the book, the following summary is added: The term utopian is used to refer to those people, who at various times, have conceived of creating an idealistic form of government here on earth. For the most part these earthly millenniums have been the idealized expression of some existing type of organization. Thus Plato, in his Republic, idealized the Greek city-state of his day.) Sir Thomas More, in his Utopia, worked out with faultless precision a government based upon a form already in existence. Bellamy, in his Looking Backwards, attempted the same thing for the present age. In general the utopians can be divided into two classes Those who have been content to set forth their ideals in great literary masterpieces, such as More's Utopia, Plato's Re public, and Campanella's City of the Sun and those who have tried by actual experiment to establish an ideal system of government, such as the colonies organized by Robert Owen, William Morris, and many others. Christian Socialism, as the name implies, is founded upon the teachings of Christ. It is an attempt to apply Christianity to social and economic problems. While the Christian Socialists have never been large numerically yet they have had enrolled in their ranks persons of international repute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
