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not for itself alone but for all its fellows we may 

 imagine that Sir Thomas More's description of 

 Utopia might have been applied with greater justice 

 to such a community than to any human society. " But 

 in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, 

 they do all know that if care is taken to keep the public 

 stores full, no private man can want anything ; for 

 among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no 

 man is poor, nor in any necessity, and though no man 

 has anything, yet they are all rich ; for what can make 

 a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free 

 from anxieties, neither apprehending want himself, nor 

 vexed with the endless complaints of his wife ? He is 

 not afraid of the misery of his children, nor is he con- 

 triving how to raise a portion for his daughters, but is 

 secure in this, that both he and his wife, his children 

 and grandchildren, to as many generations as he can 

 fancy, will all live both plentifully and happily." 



