A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
In 1516, Thomas More, Henry VIII’s future Lord Chancellor, Catholic martyr and saint, published his most controversial book, De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus (‘On the best ...
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