News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest / Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance

must ask them, will I 'nill I. What kind of a government have you? Has republicanism finally triumphed? or have you come to a mere dictatorship, which some persons in the nineteenth cen

house your pre

y come of that, whereas mere dearth came from the other kind, of which those walls once held the great supporters. Now, dear gue

understan

telling you that we have no longer anything which you

I know something about governments. But tell me, how do y

ls of these arrangements; but, further, it is true that a man no more needs an elaborate system of government, with its army, navy, and police, to force him to give way to the will of the ma

s, I do,"

enjoyment which rather alarmed me, and made me dread a s

ll what the process of govern

osed to kn

t of those days? Was it really t

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e interests of the Upper Classes took no hurt; and on the other side a sort of blind to delu

seems to s

did the people manag

they forced the Parliament to make a law to lega

nythin

h the cause of their grievances, the law stepped in and said, this is seditio

government then, nor the people

n you

ts, backed up by the executive, which handled the brute force that the deluded pe

en must needs th

dealing according to the ideas of the day? Had a poor man

they gained the case; and as for a poor one-why, it was considered a miracle of justice and bene

of the nineteenth century, was not a great success even to the people of that day, living under a class s

t seems,

a piece of goods and crying out to the neighbours, You shan't have this!-now that all this has disappear

is impo

an the protection of the rich from the poor, the

their office was to defend their own cit

ieve this? For instance, did the English Governm

it wa

nd and conquered it, they would not have

nglish workmen saw to that: they took from their workmen as much of

red, would they not have taken mo

e ruined the French, just as if the English horses and cattle had died of under-feeding. So that after all, the English workmen w

against other countries come to nothing. But that is but natural; for we have seen already that it was the function of

even when two nations were at war, the rich men of each nation gambled with each other pre

means of the law-courts meant destruction of wealth, this defence of the citizens of one country aga

annot d

ment really existed for t

t seems.

Yet

many rich peopl

he consequence

. But tell me ou

ually destroyed wealth, the

s, cer

r the sake of whom the government existed i

So i

country some people insist on being

his misery, then, was caused by the destructi

of the times; it was but the machinery of tyranny. Now tyranny has come to an end, and we no longer need such machinery; we cou

some more questions as to how yo

ll my heart