The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-18
ALL THESE THINGS WERE CRAZY ONCE


Sir Thomas More, who wrote Utopia one of the
bravest men in recorded history.
He was beheaded by Henry VIII because he put his
conScienc. above his king Only word needed to
save his life, but he refused to deny his faith
When he died he left books which during 400 years
have treasured. One of them pictured the ideal
country of Nowhere which he called Utopia
Even to this day Utopia the mpossibly good
the ideal dream which practical men know never
be realized
Yet much Of Utopia is the commonplace Of today.
Sir Thomas More wrote of cities with streets twenty
feet wide Such spaciousness could be found only in
dream city when he wrote Today, twentyfoo street
is very narrow for motor traffic.
More pictured city supplied with water running down
from the hills. The Romans such cities but during
the dark ages the comforts of civilization forgotten
SO abundant water for bathing seemed another dream
In Utopia men worked only nine hours day and Sir
Thomas More argued long to prove that such people
could survive starvation.
We have the eght-hour day and in some industries
consume the goods we produce Fear Of starvation has
been banished
Many other Of the Utopan prophecies have long been
lullllled. More foreSaW the development Of weather
orecasting with the foreteng of the approach
and storms. He guessed that time setting hens
would be displaced by incubators and that instruments
might be made to measure the movement Of the sun.
He looked to the time when men would not be hanged
!or Inert and when mothers would their In
rants He even had visions Of houses with glass windows
Of hospitals for the sick.
More extravaganza stn he described q government in
which offices were neither bought nor sold and in
whic: there would be no bribery!
IN most OF its details Utopia has been long passed
even though human nature may not be gentle and
kindly as Sir Thomas More hoped it would be-
UtopaS dreams arc actually yesterdays achievements
The force which made the Utopan vision Of one day
the commonplace accomplishment Of our generation Is
science.
W. arc no stronger than have been during known
history we can do no more physical drudgery We
think better than men did 400 years or 1000 years ago
lnonas More Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare
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Scientific research made utopian dreams practicable
Inc secrets men learned In laboratories made feasible
or Us "a work short hours and live comfortably The
very abundance which machinery produced Is the found
atlon OF the generosity and the good viii which make
our ciWIzation seem better than what went before
Even our characters thus improved with thu aid
q scienc. we peer into the influences and motives which
ma each OF Us what we become. knowledge drives out
ucn o. the blind fear which accounts for 90 much OF
inc wrong and cruelty Of mankind.
no modern man has lived finer life than Thomas
more or Confucus for that matter but the average
ana woman are better b. far than were their
1ew hundred years back. Through science virtue 4
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Apply the scientific nethod to yosr own problem.
sek ~ undend IL fActs you deal With without pre-
OBJ your mind to the new things witch day ~
osy ~ beans uncovered ~ you vii help to create
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