Of Their Magistrates : OF THEIR MAGISTRATES "Thirty families choose every year a magistrate, who was anciently called the Syphogrant, but is now called the Philarch; and over every ten Syphogrants, with the families subject to them, there is another magistrate, who was anciently called the Tranibore, but of late...
Introduction : INTRODUCTION Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony's School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop...
Of Their Military Discipline : OF THEIR MILITARY DISCIPLINE They detest war as a very brutal thing, and which, to the reproach of human nature, is more practised by men than by any sort of beasts. They, in opposition to the sentiments of almost all other nations, think that there is nothing more inglorious than that glory th...
Of Their Slaves, And Of Their Marriages : OF THEIR SLAVES, AND OF THEIR MARRIAGES "They do not make slaves of prisoners of war, except those that are taken in battle, nor of the sons of their slaves, nor of those of other nations: the slaves among them are only such as are condemned to that state of life for the commission of some crime...
Of Their Traffic : OF THEIR TRAFFIC "But it is now time to explain to you the mutual intercourse of this people, their commerce, and the rules by which all things are distributed among them. "As their cities are composed of families, so their families are made up of those that are nearly related to one another. Their...
Of Their Towns, Particularly Of Amaurot : OF THEIR TOWNS, PARTICULARLY OF AMAUROT "He that knows one of their towns knows them all--they are so like one another, except where the situation makes some difference. I shall therefore describe one of them, and none is so proper as Amaurot; for as none is more eminent (all the rest yielding...
Of Their Trades, And Manner Of Life : OF THEIR TRADES, AND MANNER OF LIFE "Agriculture is that which is so universally understood among them that no person, either man or woman, is ignorant of it; they are instructed in it from their childhood, partly by what they learn at school, and partly by practice, they being led out often...
Title Page : UTOPIA BY THOMAS MORE [1516] Edition of Cassell & Co. [1901] Etext Prepared By David Price
Of The Travelling Of The Ns : OF THE TRAVELLING OF THE UTOPIANS If any man has a mind to visit his friends that live in some other town, or desires to travel and see the rest of the country, he obtains leave very easily from the Syphogrant and Tranibors, when there is no particular occasion for him at home. Such as travel carry...
Discourses Of Raphael Hythloday, Of The Best : DISCOURSES OF RAPHAEL HYTHLODAY, OF THE BEST STATE OF A COMMONWEALTH Henry VIII., the unconquered King of England, a prince adorned with all the virtues that become a great monarch, having some differences of no small consequence with Charles the most serene Prince of Castile, sent me into Flanders...
Of The Religions Of The Ns : OF THE RELIGIONS OF THE UTOPIANS "There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. Some worship such men as have been eminent in former times for virtue or glory, not only...
