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simultaneously produced, was a joint progenitor of the 

 large brood of Utopian constructions — numbering over 

 a hundred, we are told — that have since been ushered 

 into the world. It is not a little singular that the best 

 of these — the loftiest, the most imaginative, and withal 

 the most philosophical — should have been produced 

 in that very Canterbury province where Erewhon was 

 conceived.* 



* Limanora : the Island of Progress. By Godfrey Sweven 

 (Professor J. Macmillan Brown). New York : Putnams. 1903. 



