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How the half-worlds go, and how eutopia may come; and what we need before we can build Jerusalem in any green and pleasant land.
The sort of thinking that has created our utopias has placed desire above reality; and so their chief fulfillment has been in the realm of fantasy. This is true of the classic utopias that we have surveyed, and it is true -- though not perhaps quite so apparent -- of the partial utopias that were formulated by the various reconstruction movements during the last century.