Excerpt from Utopia Limited, or the Flowers of Progress Melene (lazily). We are very well as we are. Life Without a care - every want supplied by a kind and fatherly monarch, who, despot though he be, has no other thought than to make his people happy - What have we to gain by the great change that is in store for us? Sal. What have we to gain? English institutions, English tastes, and oh, English fashions! Cal. England has made herself what she is because, in that favoured land, everyone has to think for himself. Here we have no need to think, because our monarch anticipates all our wants, and our political Opinions are formed for us by the journals to Which we subscribe. Oh, think how much more brilliant this dialogue would have been, if we had been accustomed to exercise our reflective powers! They say that in England the conversation of the very meanest is a coruscation of impromptu epigram! 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.