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ARE UTOPIAS ANY USE?,

MANY - EXPERIMENTS, BUT THEY HAVE ALL FAILED.

WHY IS NO WOMAN AMONGST THEM?

[BY THE VERY Hav. W. R. INGE, D.D., DEAN OF ST. PAUL'S.).

Most people indulge in day-came a practical reformer rather dreams,, though they usually keep than a Utopian: In his latest book them to themselves. The day-dreams ho seems to favour a type of of social reformers take the form government rather like the late of Utopias, which means "Noiamented. British Constitution. wheres" They do not call them Mr. Wells's "Samurai" were very "Never Nevers, because the social like Plato's Guardians, but he also réformer is a person who needs to has given them up. encourage himself, which he does by publishing his programme. and saying. It is coming." This has the advantage of being a very irritating kind of argument to the objector who points out that "it" is unjust and absurd.

We all wonder sometimes why the wonderful discoveries of civilisa tion, the revelations of religion, and the wisdom of philosophers have not made mankind any hap pier. Must we wait till by some mysterious process of elimination we have "let the ape and tiger die" out of our composition, and must we then proceed to tackle that much more intractable animal the donkey? It is dreary work waiting so long. And so we give form to the unrealisable half of our hopes As Lowell says: "

Still, through our paltry stir and

strife..

Glows down the wished ideal;

And longing moulds in clay what

life

Carves in the marble real, If the wished ideal were moulded in clay it would be well. But too, often it is only of the stuff that dreams are made of. It is a vision of what we should like to do with

the world if we could start with a clean slate"

GERMANY'S NEW DESTROYERS.

NAVAL RECONSTRUCTION.

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Quietly bub stendily the recon- atruction of the German Navy forges ahead, of course, strictly in conformity with the Versailles limitationa The launch at Wil-i helmshaven of four destroyers now brings her strength in these units ecnstructed since the wET ugata twelve. The first batch of six, known as the lowe class, was laid down in 1825. The vessels dis- place 790 tons and are designed for a speed of 39 knots. In comparison with modern foreign types they ar both small and slow. Their arma- ment consists of four torpedo tubes Modern Utopians. »

"and three 4.1-inch, guns. The In fact, Utopians who have tried second batch of six, laid down dur- to make practical experiments have in last year, is similar in general details but in designed for 34 knots. been so uniformly unsuccessful an to Once again the German designers suggest that Utopias are not meant

are showing their preference for comparatively modest displace- for use, but only as inspiring ments. The chief disability of the ideals. Perhaps they should all be new destroyers lies in their relative

ly limited radius of action. But written in poetry. But few with all hen overaena possessions Utopians can resist trying to make gone, Germany has no need to build warcraft with a wide son-keeping. their dreams materialise. Plato was endurance. Mere size is more of a willing to legislate for Sicily, but disability to a destroyer than to any he never tried to set up his "Reather type of warship. The charac

ter of her work in action neces- public. Flotinus did think of founding a Platonopolis on a de- serted and probably malarious wite in Campanin; but his friend the Emperor Gallienus very wisely quashed the project. The modern Socialist Utopians have several times tried experimenta Louia Blane in 1848 proclaimed the at- tractive formula that every man should produce according to his powers and consume according to his needs. In 1848 his scheme of national workshops was actually tried. It was an abject failure, and would have been so even if the Government had not determined that it should not succeed.

One of the ablcat Utopias as Theodor Hertzis's "Freeland," which appeared in 1890. Hartska owed something to Bellamy's "Looking Backward," a book which had an immense vogue forty years Plato's Remedy.

ago; but the Austrian Utopia is The verdict of religion is that better worked cut. A large com the corruption of man's heart" ["mittee was formed to carry out his is responsible for our failures. But scheme, and a tract in Central the Utopian wants a simpler and Africa, near Mount Kenia, was ac capré flattering explanation. The quired for the experiment.” Some- Utopian Socialists, of whom Roushow, everything went wrong, and seau is the type, declared that man the plan was given up. in naturally good and governments unnaturally bad. The remedy, as a truculent member of the school ex- pressed it, may be to strangle the last king with the entrails of the last priest." Unfortunately, Anatole France said, those who begin by assuming that man is naturally good ead by wishing to Liberty, Equality, Fraternity "Death, became the formula of the | munity" is

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Other Utopians have observed very justly that, since power is always abused, good Government is almost impossible. The only remedy, according to Plato, is to make the ruling class so uncomfortable that only a very good man would wish to be a ruler. In his idea! Comelecting no new members. The last monwealth the governing class, exnimunist was an aged urillionaire. Lastly, Mark's Utopia has been chosen by merit, were to own no property and to have no family life tried on a large scale in Russia. It Communism was to be established, is safe to prophesy that nobody will but only for the governors, not for try that particular experiment a the producers. Sir Thomas More second time the American historian went much further, and ordained a general Communism in tris Utopia. of Utopias, wishes to include the

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tianity as a form of Utopianism. was dismissed. This is the most popular Utopian The fact is that Christians have remedy for social evils. Most never quite made up their minds crimes and vices, they say, come whether the City of God is to be from wanting to have more than in heaven or on earth, nor whether

tion and all will be well. It is also in the present if we could see specially important to prevent the it. Men never have been, and never governing class from robbing the will be, content wholly to surrender governed, and this can be done only this world for the next, or the next by preventing them from owning world for this. At one time Plato's anything at all

ideal, commonwealth takes wings and flies away to heaven; at another time me say with Blake that they will not reat till they have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land. This worldlinees and choose between them? Or, after all, other worldliness-how shallowe must we choose Cannot we have

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