In Erasmus's work, Mistress Folly delivers a speech praising herself. But she also proposes that the Christian religion is, on the word of St. Paul, a model of unwordly folly. More's Utopia tests the reader's quickness and insight. Hythloday's comments do offer, however, an acute and rational critique of English society. The legal code is simple.
Punishments are humane.
Exploitation and aggression are unknown. A spirit of rational economy prevails.