Thomas More and His Utopia with a Historical Introduction (1927) (Paperback)

Two great figures loom on the threshold of Socialism: Thomas More & Thomas Munzer, two men whose fame rang throughout Europe in their lifetimes: one a statesman & scholar who attained to the highest position in his native land & whose works aroused the admiration of his contemporaries; the other an agitator & organizer, before whose quickly collected multitudes of proletarians & peasants the German princes trembled. Fundamentally different from each other in respect of standpoint, method & temperament, both were alike as regards their object - communism, alike in daring & fidelity to conviction, and alike in the end which overtook them - both died on the scaffold. Contents: Age of Humanism & of the Reformation; Rise of Capitalism; Landed Property; The Church; Humanism; Thomas More's Biographers; More as Humanist; More & Catholicism; More as Politician; Utopia; More as Economist & Socialist; Mode of Production of the Utopians; Families of the Utopians; Politics, Science & Religion in Utopia; The Aim of Utopia